[Kde-imaging] Discussing the future of kipi and kipi-plugins

[Gilles Caulier]

Le Lundi 30 Janvier 2006 12:36, Sebastian Röder a écrit :
> > Alle 15:41, domenica 29 gennaio 2006, Tom Albers ha scritto:
> > > > I'm full agree with you Joern. You already know my viewpoint about
> > > > kipi and others projects witch uses plugins (outside digikam of
> > > > course).
> > >
> > > Ok, lets pull the plug then. We need to think about how to move the
> > > kipi's back to digiKam. I suppose we can do that best at digikam-devel.
> > >
> > > toma
> >
> > I don't like this solution, but if no one tells that he's not agree...
> > I will say my last comment then, as a user i probably don't know
> > kipi/kipi-plugins are plugins of my preferred image viewer (let's say
> > gwenview), so i cannot understand what you're going to decide. What i see
> > is i won't have my features any more... that's bad IMO (even if
> > digikam-devel could solve the problem for developers). As a packager it
> > means who care about digikam package will have to manage some confilicts.
> > As a developer, which I'm in life not in this project, it is very sad to
> > see how a great idea and job is failing....
>
> Yes it's very sad to see a good idea die - but the project was kind of dead
> cause of the missing participation of the NON-digikam projects (maybe you
> should contact your gwenview devels and "complain"). In the whole time of
> the discussion not even ONE devel from another KDE imaging program posted
> his/her opinion here. A bad sign, though!
>
> I guess for you it dosn't mean you loose the current kipi-plugings as this
> is OSS - nobody is puting the code into the locker. So at least the last
> kipi-plugins release can still be used for gwenview etc. But they have to
> maintain it themselve from there on.

In others words Sebastian, others kipi host applications suck digikam work to 
use plugins without contribute to the project.

We can continue like this. Working like this isn't my vision of opensource. 
Sorry this bad sound, but it's the reallity...

-- 
Gilles