Re: The Community

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Benjamin Long wrote:
> Who wants to be a member of the Opie Community?

I would definitely like to be considered part of the Opie community. I've been 
a contributor to the Opie project for a few years now - first I concentrated 
on making small improvements to the Opie wiki, then helped out doing bug 
triage. More recently I've been able to dive into the actual code, making 
minor improvements all over the place as well as writing a plugin for 
OpenSync for syncing PIM data with Opie. As yet very little of the code I 
have put into Opie itself has really seen the light of day due to the holdup 
in releasing 1.2.3 - hopefully we can get that resolved soon.

I still see a lot of potential in Opie 1.2.x - it's already in a pretty good 
state, there are just a few key areas where we need to improve things (web 
browsing, media playback, syncing). I think we can get a few more releases 
out of it before it needs to be put out to pasture.

Moving forward, clearly something based around Qt 4 makes the most sense, but 
that means an almost complete rewrite of lots of important functionality, 
which is why I have been hesitant to go in that direction myself just yet 
(although I know others already have). Of course I recognise that the time 
will come when we have to put all of our efforts into a new branch.

Getting back to the question of community - looking over the responses to 
Benjamin's question, I see that there are a few people I would have expected 
to respond who haven't. Please, don't hold back - if you want to be 
considered part of the Opie community, then speak up now.

Cheers,
Paul
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