[Kde-extra-gear] Re: Current status of CD Burners?

Joseph Wenninger jowenn@bigfoot.com
Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:21:27 +0000


Hi

If you like, you can move kreatecd to kde-extra-gear. It's OK for me. There 
are only two grave bugs, which I'll fix soon.

Kind regards
Joseph Wenninger

On Sunday 23 June 2002 22:57, Alex Podolsky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did not respond the first time you asked, mostly because I did not
> know how to proceed. The whole move of cdbakeoven to KDE was done in
> hopes that it will become collectively developed/translated/etc. That
> did not happen. And if that has not happened when cdbakeoven was part of
> kdeutils, I really doubt that it'll happen in kde-extra-gear.
>
>
> I will leave it up to you/Waldo to decide whether cdbakeoven should be
> moved to nonbeta or complitely removed.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex.
>
> On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 08:27, Klas Kalass wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I got an email from Sebastian some time ago, that he will ask Waldo to do
> > the move for his app. AFAIK Waldo is back from his vacations now and he
> > might have overlooked your move request. The translators are already
> > complaining that the move did not happen yet. So please initiate the
> > move, otherwise I will ask Waldo next weekend to move all apps. If any of
> > your apps is unmaintained and should be removed or moved to nonbeta
> > instead of extra gear please say so!
> >
> > By the way: We already have the kvim part in the extra gear and the
> > authors of ksvg stated that they want it in the extra gear as well.
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Klas
> >
> > Am Montag, 27. Mai 2002 21:53 schrieb Klas Kalass:
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > I write to you all because you were the ones that were contacted by
> > > Niels for a cd-burner meeting. So what is the current status? What did
> > > you decide?
> > >
> > > There are still all three apps in KDE cvs.
> > > As you might remember the Thread "App duplication again" on core-devel
> > > ( http://lists.kde.org/?t=102050810200002&r=1&w=2 ) came to the
> > > conclusion that a new module will be created for all apps that cannot
> > > be agreed to be in any of the other modules. This module is called KDE
> > > Extra Gear and will be announced during this week(-end). All the
> > > cd-burning apps in main kde modules (I am currently aware of
> > > cdbakeoven, k3b and kreatecd) should go there and I would like to move
> > > them before the announcement of the new module is made (so we already
> > > have something to show :).
> > >
> > > You (the maintainers of those apps) might want to ask one of the people
> > > with enough rights to move stuff on the server to do this so you know
> > > when exactly this happens and keep the cvs history. I think that David
> > > and Waldo can do this.
> > >
> > > There is a mailing list for this new module (please subscribe at
> > > http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-extra-gear ) and I want this
> > > module to become really worthwhile and a place for good apps that
> > > should be associated with the KDE Project but can not be part of the
> > > KDE release for one reason or the other. I also hope that we can
> > > encourage the translators and documentation writers to take the
> > > applications in the Extra Gear as seriously as the application in the
> > > main modules.
> > >
> > > Applications in the Extra Gear will be released independantly and I
> > > hope to be able to automate as much of this process as possible. Please
> > > tell me what you think needs to be done for this.
> > >
> > > Looking forward to some great apps for a great new module!
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > > Klas