On Monday 31 March 2008, Joe Sloan said:
IIUC the main kde developers are paid for their work.
Not really. A few KDE developers are paid to work on KDE at distros, like us in the KDE Team here at Novell, but although we may be old hands, you can't say that this group represents all the 'main kde developers', or that our work is always on enhancing 'core KDE'. We do fix or extend it as needed or in our free time, but most of our paid time is spent fixing bugs and packaging KDE. A much smaller group is sponsored just to hack on KDE as they wish, full time. The majority of the 'main kde developers' are in unrelated jobs and work on KDE in their spare time. A fewof them are at distros doing other stuff (like Coolo) but most don't. The KDE 4 Solid hardware notification guy spent most of his time bouncing around downtown Baghdad in a jeep until recently. The belief that there's a 'core KDE team' working together full time on driving KDE forward in a shiny office somewhere is inaccurate. IMO it's KDE's strength that it's a diverse, non-hierarchical and not aligned to any one distro or commercial interest, but to its users and community. Will -- Desktop Engineer KDE Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org