Feedback from an application developer

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 21.08.09 14:20:12, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> On Friday 21 August 2009, Jaroslaw S wrote:
> > Perhaps moving to KDE SVN would be a first step into having the app
> > packaged?
> 
> I know KDE is very inclusive about that. But not every project *wants* to be 
> included in KDE svn, nor would this make much sense in some cases. To mention 
> just *some* reasons, I like the flexibility of truely being the admin of my 
> project, including the ability to hand out SVN write privileges myself, the 
> (relative, but real) comfort of managing all project ressources through a 
> single platform,

Those are valid reasons.

> the freedom to set release cycles that are often much 
> shorter, and sometimes much longer than KDE's...

This is not. There are tons of apps in KDE svn that have their own release
cycle: amarok, k3b, koffice just to name a few prominent ones.

Andreas

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