On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Robert Schweikert wrote:

Remember, this is a community and a community project, not a company. Thus, one should be careful about telling people wher they should spend their time and effort. Ilya has decided to maintain KDE3, which I am certain has benefits for some users of openSUSE.

I know how it works, I do administer an OS project. I also know people need steering to more productive efforts sometimes.

Thanks for the effort Ilya.

But don't get me wrong, all those being able to install kde3 apps not present in kde4 now thanks to Ilya's efforts will be thankful, me included. Still, it would be important to try and close the functionality gap between 3 and 4. Because it's the way of progress.

The question we should be discussing here is not how people spent the time they volunteer to the project, rather we should discuss whether KDE3 should be part of the main release and what to say about it in the release notes.

IMHO KDE3 should not be part of the main release, for reasons I mentioned earlier in this thread, but should be promoted in the release notes in a "Community" section thereof.

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Robert Schweikert wrote:

IMHO KDE3 should not be part of the main release, for reasons I mentioned earlier in this thread, but should be promoted in the release notes in a "Community" section thereof.

Stuff that is not in Factory/distro repo should not be mentioned in the release notes IMO. We should not actively encourage Joe Average to install stuff from 3rd party repos. Instead developers are encouraged to submit to Factory. That way we can ensure the packages get reviewed on checkin, ie make sure at least our basic packaging rules are adhered to and packaging checks are run. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org