Re: Continuing Community Issues

On Tuesday 01 February 2011 05.18.51 Robert Marmorstein wrote:
> I would like to request that developers in "Group B" be  
> more circumspect in how they behave toward visitors to public koffice  
> forums, especially the IRC channel and the mailing list.
> 
> I believe that a lot of what bothers me stems from two issues:
> 
> A.  Unresolved animosity between Thomas and the group B developers.
> B.  Misinformation or misunderstandings about Group A.
> 
> In particular, I feel that many of you have assumed that "Group A" is  
> really just Thomas.  That is simply not true.  I personally hope to  
> contribute to both projects and there are one or two others who have  
> also continued to contribute.
> 
> It's also not true that we are working only on kword.  One of the  
> things I have been working on (for some time, actually) involves  
> improving GUI support for variables in several koffice applications.
> 
> As far as I know, it is true that Group A has not formally decided who  
> is maintaining what.  That is largely because we do not have any  
> dedicated channel for communicating with just "Group A" right now and  
> it is difficult to use the old channels when the old disputes keep  
> recurring in them.
> 
> So, I guess what I am saying is that I would greatly appreciate it if  
> developers would make an effort to avoid broad generalizations about  
> who belongs to "Group A" on the IRC channel.  Directing users and new  
> developers to Calligra is not what bothers me.  It is the implied  
> message that Calligra is now the "only official koffice" that often  
> accompanies it.  I have seen several IRC pots that give users the  
> impression that development has entirely stopped in the Group A  
> branch, which is untrue.
> 
> Instead of saying things like "all the real developers have moved to  
> Group B, try #calligra instead.", perhaps you could say something  
> like: "the maintainers of several of the koffice components have moved  
> to Calligra, but Group A is also continuing to develop them. You can  
> ask in #calligra if you are interested in the new direction the group  
> is moving."?

Thanks Robert for this initiative.

Much appreciated :)
-- 
Thomas Zander