[Bug 86423] Ability To Reply To HTML Email With Same HTML Format As It Was Received

[mi+kde at aldan.algebra.com]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86423


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--- Comment #108 from  <mi+kde aldan algebra com>  2009-12-08 19:13:57 ---
Not to insult anyone, but this bounty-talk is silly. Money sure can speed-up an
open-source project, but in this case the speed of development is not the
problem. The problem is absence of ANY development. It has been 5 years since
the feature was requested -- tons of features were added to KDE within that
time, most of them for free.

Because developers wanted to do them and the architects approved of them.

This feature's trouble is with the subtle ideological resistance. Stefan Gehn's
comment #14 is the rare explicit statement on the matter, but it is quite
apparent, that other decision-makers feel similarly and may even consider one
of their own, who finally implements it, to be a "sell-out". Our measly
20-200-1000 dollars/euros aren't going to change their minds very much -- the
bug already has thousands of votes, so there is no question, they know, the
users want it.

Even if we collect enough pledges to hire a developer just for that, chances
are, his work will not be accepted by the KDE-project under some pretext or
another, and the separate patches would have to be maintained separately. The
pretexts wouldn't be dishonest: every new feature violates existing balance in
some way, so it has to add valuable functionality to justify it. Clearly, this
feature is not perceived as beneficial -- nay, it is viewed as DETRIMENTAL --
and thus it will be sincerely rejected.

I'd love for this opinion of mine to turn into a self-defeating prophecy, but
-- after all these years -- I'm not particularly hopeful...

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