<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 October 2016 at 13:11, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kossebau@kde.org" target="_blank">kossebau@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Dag & all,<br>
<span><br>
Am Mittwoch, 26. Oktober 2016, 14:03:12 CEST schrieb Dag:<br>
> Hi<br>
> Another month came and went, and not much happened...<br>
> I'm actually a little afraid of releasing because we might attract some<br>
> users.<br>
> Well, to be more precise, that there will be nobody to support those<br>
> users.<br>
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</span>If I speak openly that is also my subjective line of thinking.<br>
<br>
Making a release of software means giving it to others and thus making a<br>
promise to them, so subscribing to moral responsibilities.<br>
<br>
Even while having spent so much time and energy into the porting over the last<br>
two years, I am not sure I am motivated to spent my bit of needed time into<br>
maintenance where needed by non-contributors currently. At least when it comes<br>
to the main Calligra editor apps.<br>
<br>
My personal interest is in the middleware and technology, and I joined the<br>
Calligra project because it was closest to what I would like to have, though<br>
with big plans for redesigning basic parts (and quite some draft branches are<br>
on my local disk). Which is also why I never officially signed up as<br>
maintainer of any of the maintainer-less apps, only for the plugins for Okular<br>
and some import filters.<br>
<br>
Still, to get some momentum in this discussion, I have just taken the liberty<br>
to push a commit which removes Braindump, Karbon app & Stage app from release<br>
builds, as there is no-one even coming close to be a maintainer. At least with<br>
Stage I hope that commit will trigger someone to react, but then hope dies<br>
last, they say ;)<br>
And by that commit I also express my hope that you the Plan, Sheets & Words<br>
maintainers will still do a release for your software, so that my porting<br>
contributions are coming to someone else's gain still.<br>
<br>
Besides that though I have to state now (also to myself) that I have no<br>
personal motivation to drive or invest into any release work right now, as<br>
there is no itch to scratch for myself here, especially when looking at the<br>
consequences.<br>
<br>
I will happily assist where possible though anyone with a Calligra 3.0 release<br>
for small related tasks.<br>
<span><br>
> Also, not to be forgotten, KChart and KGantt needs to be released.<br>
<br>
</span>Yes, thanks for the push :) Though I have had already started to play around<br>
with the packaging scripts the other WE. As written in private email, planning<br>
for release on latest Nov. 7th.<br>
<br>
<span class="m_-5633261834305565891HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;display:inline" class="gmail_default">Thanks for concrete actions, Friedrich. Adding KDE community to the </div> <div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;display:inline" class="gmail_default">channel...<br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;display:inline" class="gmail_default">I have no doubts that middleware tech of the project has the most chances to be actively developed.<br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;display:inline" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;display:inline" class="gmail_default">tl;dr for others:<br>Large parts of Calligra will be frozen, buried in KDE git and not released if there are no maintainers. <br><br>Very soon, so feel free to share the request with the outside world.<br></div></div></div><br>-- <br><div class="m_-5633261834305565891gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">regards, Jaroslaw Staniek<br><br>KDE:<br>: A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators<br>: and facilitators committed to Free Software development - <a href="http://kde.org" target="_blank">http://kde.org</a><br>Calligra Suite:<br>: A graphic art and office suite - <a href="http://calligra.org" target="_blank">http://calligra.org</a><br>Kexi:<br>: A visual database apps builder - <a href="http://calligra.org/kexi" target="_blank">http://calligra.org/kexi</a><br>Qt Certified Specialist:<br>: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/<wbr>jstaniek</a></div>
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