KDEPrint needs maintainer / developer(s) [I'm retiring somehow]

[Till Kamppeter]

Oi,

I would suggest the following:

On the following events I am present and on some also Kurt Pfeifle is 
present:

- LinuxTag 2005, June 22-25 in Karlsruhe in Germany

- Printing Summit on LSM/RMLL 2005, July 5-9 in Dijon in France

- LinuxWorld Expo 2005, August 9-11 in San Francisco in the US

We can make use of these events to try to find a new maintainer for KDE 
Print.

On the LinuxTag we can give a talk in the Forum in the Stadthalle 
(http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/events/LinuxTag2005/forum.php3) or in 
one of the workshop rooms 
(http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/events/LinuxTag2005/workshops.php3). The 
talk could be given by Michael Goffioul, Kurt Pfeifle, or me. Michael, 
if you do not want to go to the event for this (at least for the day of 
the talk), I prefer that Kurt gives it, as he knows more about KDE Print 
than me (he made the documentation). I would suggest to take workshop 
room R 2.08 on Saturday, 12:00 for this talk. Joey, can you reserve it?

I could also give a talk on the Printing Summit on the LSM/RMLL 2005 in 
Dijon. Michael, Kurt, if someone of you could come to Dijon, at least on 
the day of the Printing Summit's talk session (Wednesday, July 6), I 
prefer that one of you gives the talk. Note that the LSM/RMLL 2005 is a 
developer's conference.

On the LinuxTag and on the LinuxWorld Expo I will present printing on a 
booth and there I could try to find someone, but I think the talks are a 
better platform.

I got recently some money from Ricoh for linuxprinting.org and for 
travelling to events, so I can help if funding for travel is needed. 
Also LSM/RMLL could perhaps sponsor travelling.

WDYT?

    Till


Goffioul Michael wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> For about 2 years, I've not been very active in the KDE community: I'm barely
> trying to maintain kdeprint, but I'm surely not developing it anymore. The
> reason is quite simple: I don't have the time nor the resources anymore. I already
> sent a mail like this 1.5 year ago, but it didn't trigger any expected reaction.
> 
> Now, the situation is still the same. The problem is that bugs are accumulating
> and I don't have the time to fix them. I can just give advices to people to avoid
> them. New technologies will arrive soon: CUPS-1.2, Qt4. KDEPrint won't be adapted
> to those and I fear that people will start more to complain than to enjoy it.  If
> I can't find anybody to take it up, at some point, I guess it'd be wiser to get
> back to plain QPrinter.
> 
> So I wanted to let everybody know that I'm somehow retiring from KDEPrint development.
> What I mean by this is that I'll still keep an eye on it an try to help people as
> much as I can, but I won't be able to develop anymore. I hope to find someone to
> replace me.  I really enjoyed developing kdeprint.
> 
> Bye.
> Michael.
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