[Kde-pim] Fwd: [Bug 15711] Project infrastructure for desktop PIM service Akonadi

[Volker Krause]

On Thursday 08 January 2009 18:24:21 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Thursday 08 January 2009, Volker Krause wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 January 2009 16:49:31 Tom Albers wrote:
> > > /me scratches head...
> > >
> > > Did I miss a memo?
> >
> > I'm wondering the same...
>
> I am actually not suprised very much.
> They have probably been working very hard to find suitable phrasing
> of "reasons".
>
> > Would have been nice if those "various people" would talk to us about
> > their "number of concerns" :-/
>
> Looking at the other items I'd say that there are actually no substantial
> reasons (otherwise they would have been mentioned), but rather an attempt
> to "save face" in the light of almost a year of delay while at the same
> time being vague enought to not shed any bad light on us.

Well, that didn't work at all then. The whole process certainly confirms 
predjudices against fd.o and since we don't have concrete issues to argue 
against it sheds a bad light on us at least for the casual observers who 
don't know the whole background.

> I guess I could have closed it myself saying that we came to an agreement
> with KDE to provide the infrastructure since this is such an important
> project for the Free Software desktop.

Which might have given the impression that we are longer interested in making 
Akonadi a cross-desktop project...

Anyway, it never really was about infrastructure, we have an excellent one in 
KDE, but about making it clear to everyone that Akonadi is intended to be a 
cross-desktop project, not something only for KDE.

> I am consider to writing a blog entry explaining that fdo hosting is
> basically provided for projects which cannot easily get access to one of
> the desktop projects' infrastructures.

That's not fully true IMHO, that would imply that projects currently hosted on 
fd.o (eg. D-Bus and poppler) would not have gotten access to KDE 
infrastructure, which is not true.

> Probably should do this right away to avoid having somebody else blog about
> it negatively.

I can't say I could blame anyone for doing that, but then I don't know the 
full story myself yet.

regards
Volker
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