gSoC Implement a better database schema

[Tim Bocek]

Just to be clear, I don't develop regularly for Amarok - like you, I don't
have time to learn the code base.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/3/27 Tim Bocek <tim.bocek at gmail.com>:
> > onsidering how you were *already* planning to fix it yourself as a GSoC
> > project, I don't think that quote really applies, actually.
> >
> > All people are saying is that to fix the problem you've identified would
> > require a week of work, not twelve.  Since you obviously feel strong
> enough
> > to devote twelve weeks, why not one?  Or, to get to the *real* point of
> the
> > post you linked too, put your money where your mouth is instead (aside
> from
> > the fact that Amarok doesn't have an official sponsorship program...)
> >
>
> It'd take you a week, it might take me a month if I started today.
> Why? I'm a student, actually my second C++ class is about to start and
> I haven't done any C++ in 2 years, I'm not familiar with the amarok
> code base, and I don't know kde or qt libraries. I offered to do this
> as part of gsoc, because as you'll notice that bug has been there for
> quite a while, 2 prior discussions on this  (before the release of
> amarok 2.0 )and the developer list suggest it wasn't a simple issue.
> Now I'm told it is. This bug has been in amarok as long as I have used
> it, which has been a few years now, maybe 3, 4?
>
> now I'm told it's a simple bug to fix, and I ask myself, then why does
> it still exist, I find the answer to be, simply amarok's devs don't
> care.
>
> anyways when reading that post today it made me think of this whole thing.
>
> and no I'm not going to pay you to fix it. I may fix it myself when I
> have the knowledge to, but that day has not yet come.
> --
> Caleb Cushing
>
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