Proposal on the CD-Writer problem

Alex Podolsky alexpod at users.sourceforge.net
Sun May 5 16:22:00 BST 2002


Hi,

On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 20:36, Niels Reedijk wrote:
> Dear Alexander, Joseph, Alex, Sebastian and Kai,
> 
> As can be concluded from the many mails on kde-core-devel and kde-i18n-doc,
> the problem of having four CD-writer programs in the KDE CVS has provoked
> many negative reactions, which I consider sound. As one of the developers of
> KreateCD, I consider it is the job of the maintainers of the 'CD toasters' to
> first come forward with a solution of our own instead of having a whole argument
> on the mailinglists referred to earlier. 
> 
> That is also the reason that this message is CC'ed to both the mailinglists, to let
> you other kde contributers know that we are working on it at the moment.
> 
> The current situation is the following: there are three cd-writer apps in the
> KDE CVS, which is too many for three reasons, namely that the translators need
> to translate 2000+ strings for programs that do essentially the same, as well
> as documenters working on perhaps futile docs, and of course that the goal of
> the KDE project is to bundle software that looks and feels the same, for every
> task, and not ten programs that do essentially the same, but that are developed
> by different people.
> 
> We, as maintainers, should come forward and show that we are willing to work
> on this problem. Therefore I propose to have an IRC meeting for all the
> maintainers to talk about how _we_ feel about the current situation and how we
> would like to solve it, for our sake and for KDE's sake. 
> 
> As I don't know what timezone's you are in, I propose to have the meeting on
> on of these dates:
> 1) Thursday the 9th of May around 19:00 GMT
> 2) Saturday the 11th of May around 19:00 GMT
> 3) Sunday the 12th of May around 19:00 GMT

Saturday or Sunday sounds good, it's too early for me on weekdays.

> Please respond and state if your diary allows the dates, if not, propose your
> own. I will follow up soon with an agenda and with the date it has become.
> Of course other people interested should mail me too, the meeting is open.
> (Though the date really depends on the maintainers of the apps).

I think that it would also make sense for all participants to be at
least some what familiar with all the apps, to make conversation more
productive.

> I foresee a prosperous future of CD writing in KDE,
> 
> Yours sincerely
> Niels Sascha Reedijk
> <nielx at kde.nl>

Looking forward to this,

Alex.
 






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