extragear/multimedia/amarok

[Bart Cerneels]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
>> Mark Kretschmann wrote:
>>> 4)
>>> The dependency is (for the moment) leading to problems with one of our
>>> commercial partners.
>>
>> So far no one has paid much attention to this point...Mark, can you
>> explain this in any more depth?  This seems like the most pressing
>> reason to consider a revert.
>
> Well, for one they are no Linux experts in any way. You can consider
> them newbies in these matters. This means that our people working on
> this particular project will have to handle everything for them,
> including solving possible problems that could arise.
>
> I'm not saying that's not doable, but it does present an extra hurdle
> right now in an already very tight schedule.
>
> But see, I'd like to stress that point 4) from my list isn't even the
> most important here. What I'm much more concerned with is the
> potential loss of contributors that I mentioned. I think that is a
> real and tangible danger and could hurt us a lot.
>
> And then I'd like you to consider that the longer we discuss this and
> postpone an actual decision, the more useless the debate becomes. In
> two weeks time, the problem will have "solved itself", but maybe not
> the way we would prefer it: At that point contributors / users will
> either have given up on Amarok SVN, or done the upgrade dance with KDE
> 4.2. So I'd like to urge you all to come to a conclusion in this
> thread ASAP. I won't be crying if you should decide not to follow my
> proposal, but I wouldn't find it a good outcome, for the reasons I
> mentioned.