Re: [dot] Trinity Desktop Environment 3.5.13 release

On Jumee 11 Azar 1390 12:18:36 Sven Burmeister wrote:
> Promoting unmaintained code does not seem to be a good idea to me, no matter 
> whether it is some part of KDE3, KDE4 or any other app. And I'm not even 
> considering that there is a huge difference between an active developer 
> employed by Trolltech/Nokia maintaining Qt code and some developer who does 
> not have that kind of in-depth knowledge. Same for most of KDE3's code, as 
> e.g. the kwin developer pointed out in some article for a Linux magazine.
> 
> So IMHO if KDE promotes and thereby in a way recommends project x, it should 
> make sure that it can guarantee its quality or at least is sure that the code 
> is maintained to a degree that is comparable to its main project.
> 
> Sven

Hi Sven.
Trinity exists because people are not happy about the *quality* of kde's 'maintained' branch. Because KDE released code which wasnt even 'good enough' (forget about guaranteed).
Now I dont want to get into a debate why this happened or what were kde's choices which would be offtopic (and I personally think kde took the right steps).

What matters is that KDE has two options here.
A) Support Trinity desktop and accept it as a part of KDE  ==> "KDE 3.x.y released by kde for those who still need it"
B) Dont support it.  => "Trinity, the forked KDE3, releases version 3.x.y"

I personally think our choice is obvious.


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