Lørdag den 8. oktober 2011 12:17:32 skrev Sven Burmeister:
I agree with this. I got the impression that over the last few weeks, maybe months, KDE within openSUSE lost a bit of focus and momentum. I guess that's simply because there is no time or maybe the need to work on other non-KDE stuff within openSUSE. Examples are the UpdatedApps repo which does not have an official openSUSE maintainer anymore,
We're trying to kill this distinction between employed an non-employed contributors. It shouldn't matter of the work is done by Will or Raymond or me or someone else. Of course it would be great if we could have full-time employed rockstar developers maintaining links on the OBS, but that's not an effective use of resources.
KR47 being very late until it worked
However I do very much agree that there's a lack of focus/prioritization and too much stuff going on, which adds limited value to the distro and project. That's also why I objected e.g. to the creation of the KR4x repos to begin with.
It's not meant as an accusation but just my impression which leads me to think that given these low resources, for 12.1 there should be only one thing to focus on and that's KDEPIM.
To configure virtual desktops might be annoying
KDEPIM should definitely be a very high priority and will probably be the major achilles heel of 12.1. But: * only say 25-33% of KDE users use KDEPIM (most people use web-based mail/calendar or Thunderbird, some use textbased or even Evolution). While 100% of users will use the default desktop at least temporarily (probably 90% of users will never change anything other than the wallpaper). * KDEPIM can be patched later, the default desktop can't. * Fixing KDEPIM is extremely expensive (actually impossible for 12.1 timeframe, the best we can hope for is "damage control"), fixing the default desktop configuration is "low-hanging fruits" (little effort, high gain). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org