[kde-solaris] Solaris and KDE

[Cyril Plisko]

count my vote too.

May I also suggest sticking to CSW ( http://www.blastwave.org ) guidelines,
when building KDE ?


On Wednesday 30 July 2003 03:08, Stefan Teleman wrote:
> Hi!
>
> All is peaceful again in KDE Land. :-) The packages will be back in
> their usual place until i finish 3.1.2 or 3.1.3, which will replace
> them.
>
> I would like to step up and ask everyone if they agree for me to be
> one of the official Solaris maintainers of KDE. I would be very
> honored to do this in an "official" role. I have a pretty fast Ultra
> 60 at home (and i'm the only one using it :-), and i've been working
> on fixing khtml anyway (it's driving me nuts, i love it :-), so why
> not. Besides, i believe that an official maintainership of KDE
> Solaris will boost KDE's usage tremendously.
>
> I also do not have any "territorial claims" over KDE on Solaris.
> Actually, in my 12+ years of software engineering experience (which
> is what i do for a living), i have learned that more than one pair of
> eyes are always better than just one. So, i would very much welcome a
> joint effort for maintaining/porting KDE to Solaris.
>
> Please let me know. I hesitated to make this proposal until now
> because i did not want to come across as pushy or self-promoting.
>
> --Stefan
>
> -----
>
> On Tuesday 29 July 2003 05:09, Eva Brucherseifer wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 July 2003 09:56, Laurent Blume wrote:
> > > Stefan Teleman wrote:
> > > > I am just letting everyone know. I thought KDE was interested
> > > > in being available for, and being ported to, more than Linux. I
> > > > guess i must have been wrong.
> > >
> > > I still hope you were right, and that they will change their
> > > mind! I really wish Solaris packages would come out as fast as
> > > GNU/Linux ones, for both Sparc and x86 (since I'm using the
> > > latter).
> > > Compiling to have the last version is not that hard, but it takes
> > > too long.
> >
> > Actually it all depends on an active packager who is subscribed to
> > the kde-packagers list and takes part in the discussions there. At
> > least that is how it works for the other OSes/distributions. All
> > source packages are announced there 2 weeks before the official
> > announcement and people try to synchronize the release of binary
> > packages.
> >
> > So far there was no volunteer to take the full burden of
> > maintainership of solaris packages :-(
> >
> > Greetings,
> > eva
> >
> > > Laurent
> > >
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