On Mon April 13 2009 4:59:54 pm ne... wrote:
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 01:41, Richard
wrote: On Mon April 13 2009 3:48:47 pm ne... wrote: [...]
First, the KDE devs are making changes to the OBS that modify earlier versions of KDE with KDE4 code.
Second, There is no one responsible for fixing changes made by 'virtaully anybody' that break existing code/libraries/packages.
Third, many, even most of the users are not programmers and lack essential troubleshooting skills and
Fourth, even for the Cummunity members that are or can program, virtually only the Devs have any real understanding of the code in the OBS that will be 'maintained' by Community and because of poor or no documentation in the code or elsewhere, User patches submitted to the OBS run the real risk of inducing subtle logic errors that often have far-reaching side effects.
Lastly, no one really expects the Devs to 'maintain' KDE3.x, just to quit destoying it for those that need or want it, warts and all.
Seems like since you have a very idea of what is going on, you are a prime candidate for taking over as #1 maintainer.
I am not a C++ programmer, am recovering from a stroke and spend much of my time at the VA hospital attempting to regain sight in my right eye after eye surgery. Having a good idea of what is going on does not qualify me to make, modify or troubleshoot KDE3+ code. When I did program for QuickBBS, it was in Pascal. At Lockheed, I only used 'higher level' languages like Ada and applications like MS-Access, neither of which qualify me to work in C++. Iand I reiterate, re-read item 4 above, and realize that even if I were expert in C++, I would still be poorly qualified to maintain what was designed by KDE and modified by them repeatedly. The best thing to do would be to replace the OBS code for 3.5 with original code for 3.5.9 which I believe to be unmodified, set up up to be an installable package on the OBS and FREEZE it. You could keep the one they have now as an uninstallable library v3.5.10. Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org