Re: Proposal: KDE CVS Commit Policy

On Mon, 31 Mär 2003, Neil Stevens wrote:

> The desires of certain vendors to have binary packages possibly leading to 
> undiscussed and even undisclosed delays in KDE releases.

vendors desire to provide binary packages?

Wow, can you please tell me more about those vendors? I'd really like to talk to 
them. Will they provide binary packages for any platform? I think thats 
great news!

> The desires of certain vendors to have advance notice of security problems 
> possibly leading to covered-up bugs.

Ah.. makes sense. Not to me, though. 

> The desires of certain vendors to have KDE make certain use of certain 
> libraries possibly leading to breakages of compatibility.

example? 

> > Also, why do your 2 points belong into a CVS commit policy ?
> It doesn't, any more than your point on "direction" does.  That point I 
> read as you saying developers should *take* more direction, and this was 
> my rebuttal of that.

Oh well, the "direction" point does belong in a CVS policy IMHO. you can get 
free CVS hosting almost anywhere, nobody forces you to use KDE CVS. But if 
you want to, you have to play according to the rules. Very simple actually. 


-- 
Dirk