Re: The FreeRDP fork

Simon Guerrero <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.rdesktop.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Peter

I don't think desktop gives the impression of welcoming new developers. I struggled to get an agreed out-of-process virtual channel implementation then it just sat there without being integrated. All commercial manufacturers seem to be doing their own builds to incorporate the features they want.

This isn't a criticism; it just looks to the outsider like rdesktop has a small project team who don't often integrate new features.

Simon



On 14 Mar 2011, at 14:52, Peter Åstrand <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Gregory Smirnov wrote:
> 
>> freerdp project was actually announced in rdesktop-devel list:
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.rdesktop.devel/3226
>> 
>> and the reason cleanly states: "rdesktop not being fixed up quick enough"
> 
> As far as I understand, Michael Adams is not a FreeRDP developer, so I don't consider that email as any "official" announcement of the project.
> 
> 
>> I saw patches laying in rdesktop bugzilla for a while and they were
>> not integrated into rdesktop. On the other hand, if there is a new
>> implementation of existing feature in rdesktop, how it might be tested
>> and integrated into rdesktop by community? For example freerdp project
>> provides new way of keyboard handling.
>> 
>>> From observer point of view, I see that rdesktop features are being
>> decided by only Cendio and not the community. Sorry, may be I am
>> wrong, but that is an impression I've got and glad that freerdp
>> project exists and is rapidly growing.
> 
> The main problem is that rdesktop lacks active developers. Cendio also contributes to many other projects, so we are not able to spend much time on rdesktop. This is a bad situation which is not at all wanted from our side. In other words, more developers are wanted. We do not want to block contribution.
> 
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