Re: State of the project... WAS: Re: FOSDEM2004 and KDE/Debian ...

Alexander Neundorf <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.debian
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 22:12, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> Alexander Neundorf <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > And say what, seriously? "We started to do stuff but then argued about
> > > a name for 4 weeks so everyone got bored and did other stuff instead."?
> > > Don't get me wrong, Kapture and Kalternatives (I haven't forgotten you,
> > > Juanjux, I've just been way too busy) are great, right, but it's
> > > nothing with which to advertise a major project.
> >
> > I think that's not completely wrong.
>
> Basically Daniel's assessment is belittling all the actual work being
> done and focussing on the negatives.  This will not do, and I might
> point out aren't good qualities in a leader either -- if you can't
> think of anything to say than I think it's more due to a lack of
> imagination than anything else.  :)
>
> > Main point: we (KDE) need more developers/contributors.
>
> I'm partly at fault for dropping out so early in the game but at this
> point my thesis is high priority and I have no choice but to drop
> other time-consuming activities.

I mean more new people from the outside.
The kde janitor proposal comes to my mind.

> What would be useful, would be for someone (like yourself) to take the
> active lead in each sub-project, and rally the people who signed up
> for that particular project by approaching them individually (see the
> paper).

Hmm, maybe. Currently I'm doing very much for KDE, considering the amount of 
my spare time...

...
> > -work on better integration of non-KDE apps:
> > kde-OOo: I guess no new developers have joined over there
> > the gtk Qt theme: not much news
> > libqtgtk: not much news
>
> I think Philippe/Ralf/Zack are working on organizing all this.
>
> > fuse-kio: works, but I get almost no responses
>
> Organized information on fuse-kio would help a lot to garner interest,
> along with a proper release and announcement on the dot.  What do you
> think?

Will do something with Kurt.

> > Qt#: last update april 2003....
>
> Where did you get Qt# from?  As far as I know, this is a dead project.

Why is it dead ?

Bye
Alex
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