[kde-community] Proposal One: KDE (Core) Apps and Suites

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dijous, 1 de maig de 2014, a les 15:02:36, Luigi Toscano va escriure:
> Albert Astals Cid ha scritto:
> > El Dimecres, 30 d'abril de 2014, a les 21:36:14, Jaroslaw Staniek va 
escriure:
> >> [..]
> >> 
> >> I'd like to say thank you to everyone that shares personal opinion.
> >> Here's
> >> mine.
> >> 
> >> (While reading this please note that geek power users isn't a primary
> >> audience for apps I am contributing to)
> >> 
> >> - 3 -
> >> 
> >> At project management level please also note a word from a Calligra
> >> contributor. The project is so huge that there's even lack of manpower
> >> for maintaining change logs or feature guides. Even specification of
> >> essential file formats take thousands of pages combined. 400+ dialogs.
> >> 400 services/types/plugins. I don't think syncing with joint releases
> >> wouldn't add to the manpower. I would avoid anything that narrows
> >> contributor base and user base.
> >> Secondly, our choice of release schedule for Calligra is already
> >> result of a nontrivial compromise. It's complex even now while we do
> >> not have released our Frameworks to the public, something that in my
> >> opinion can be expected as our differentiator.
> > 
> > Do you believe that splitting Calligra into something like 10 different
> > releases would actually help with the lack of manpower?
> > 
> > I have the feeling that it would probably help "the big guys", but I don't
> > think it'd have a global positive "value" for all the projects that
> > compose
> > Calligra at the moment.
> > 
> > But that is my "I have no clue about Calligra" opinion so I'd value yours
> > :)
> I think there is a bit of confusion: the proposal about "unified release" is
> about the Application part of KDE SC + any other application which would
> join. A big project like Calligra is independent enough and it can have a
> separate schedule as it is now. Did I get it right?

I don't know, I don't see an unification proposal in this email thread at all, 
i see an "suitification" proposal that reads as splitting of schedules to me.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Ciao