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[C. Boemann]

Pretty hard to ask a maintainer that hasn't responded since 1999.

I have little doubt that the commits are done by paid distribution employees. 
Just like Montel and others sweeps by calligra from time to time.

On Monday 21 November 2011 15:09:18 Pierre Stirnweiss wrote:
> Well, if he has updated it to make it compile, it is still in a maintained
> state. It shows the developer(s) is(are) still interrested at providing
> their software. The very least we have to (and a strong emphasise on the
> "have to") is to speak with him(them) before even pushing much further the
> possibility of reusing the name.
> 
> PierreSt
> 
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:05 PM, C. Boemann <cbo at boemann.dk> wrote:
> > On Monday 21 November 2011 14:58:18 you wrote:
> > > On 11/21/2011 02:03 PM, C. Boemann wrote:
> > > > On Monday 21 November 2011 13:50:38 Pierre Stirnweiss wrote:
> > > >>>> 1. Abacus  (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other
> > > >>>> choices)
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> Even if it won the competition it is a bad choice as there is
> > 
> > already a
> > 
> > > >>> spreadsheet application out there with this name. See
> > > >>> http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/deskutils/abacus.html
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> If there is already a spreadsheet application with this name, then
> > 
> > this
> > 
> > > >>> is
> > > >> 
> > > >> an absolute no-go for me. How would we feel if some other project
> > > >> was developping an application suite with:
> > > >> YetAnotherApplicationSuite Words: text processor
> > > >> YAAS Stage: presentation
> > > >> YAAS Kexi: DB
> > > >> YAAS Krita: painting
> > > >> ....
> > > >> 
> > > >> Don't do others what you wouldn't want to be done to you.
> > > >> 
> > > >> My 2 cts,
> > > >> 
> > > >> PierreSt
> > > > 
> > > > except that that other Abacus has been dead for 14 years or so
> > > 
> > > 1) It's in the openSuse and Ubuntu repos.
> > > 2) The last change in the changelog at
> > 
> > http://pkgs.org/opensuse-11.4/opensuse-contrib-i586/xabacus-7.4.1-1.2.i58
> > 6 .
> > 
> > > rpm.html is from 2008 what makes it 3 years old and not 14.
> > > 3) The last change in the changelog at
> > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xabacus/+changelog is from 2011
> > > what means it's still activly developed.
> > > 
> > > In any case I think that are exactly the reasons why we should have a
> > > discussion at the mailinglist before.
> > 
> > Take a closer look at the changelog at:
> > http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/deskutils/abacus.html
> > 
> > It's quite clear it has only been updated to make it compile - no active
> > development.
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