On Tuesday 24 August 2010 18:53:49 Philipp Thomas wrote:
I was refering to the original version of YaST aka YaST1 which was a text mode only application. When SuSE replaced it by YaST2, there was a loud outcry from those that prefered YaST1. So some people took the YaST1 sources and startet a sourceforge project to keep YaST1 alive. And guess what? The project never got farther than its creation.
That's what I expect to happen to this KD3 fork.
Granted, there are counter examples like gcc, where the majority of developers disliked the way gcc was maintained (what ESR called the cathedral model) so they forked gcc and created egcs using the basar development model. After a few years the FSF accepted that egcs would be the official gcc. But this succeeded only because the majority of developers followed the fork. And for KDE3 this isn't the case.
It is not our aim to fork KDE3. It is Timothy Pearson who does it. We only maintain packages. Once we see what Timothy did is good enough and better than we have, we could include the new packages. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org