kde-pim dev needed, for a sponsored open source effort, to remove akonadi

Peter Humphrey peter at prh.myzen.co.uk
Sat Mar 17 16:57:10 GMT 2018


On Saturday, 17 March 2018 15:45:31 GMT Paul Vixie wrote:

> A few years ago i spent a couple of hours trying to build kde-pim from
> sources, so that i could [...] propose improvements in the form of code
> changes. i failed.

Have you thought of trying on a Gentoo system? Everything is compiled from 
sources - even the compilers - so all the code and logs are easily 
available.

> If putting akonadi into kde-pim with an obvious lack of broad testing and
> acceptance was possible, then patches to improve its stability should also
> be allowed in with the same absence of broad acceptance andtesting. we
> should not have a higher acceptance criteria for fixing itthan we had for
> breaking it.

I don't understand your point here. How is the code to improve, if you still 
accept the same quality as what's gone before?

-- 
Regards,
Peter




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