[Bug 60125] kdevelop project development team

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------- Additional Comments From sphere1952 at attbi.com  2003-06-20 19:23 -------
Subject: Re:  kdevelop project development team

Caleb Tennis wrote:

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>------- Additional Comments From caleb at aei-tech.com  2003-06-20 17:29 -------
>Sphere, 
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>While your recent bug reports are welcome, you have to understand that the focus on some 
>of them is much too broad to be of a lot of value.   
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>KDevelop moves in directions that the authors want it to go in.  Since it's a collaboration of 
>people who do it as a hobby and not for pay things get done at the whim of the authors.  If 
>you have needs for something else in the project, you are welcome to contribute it yourself.  
>if there are errors or bugs, people typically step up to fix them to make the product better 
>for everyone.  But large shifts in focus require much more thought and development in order 
>to happen. 
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>Do these recent requests you've made exist in other linux IDEs?  Eclipse comes to mind.  I'm 
>such it has more features in some areas that KDevelop, but it also has much more corporate 
>sponsorship.  Perhaps that IDE is more what you're looking for? 
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>Anyway, you have to understand that when you start asking for everything + the kitchen sink 
>that you're probably not going to get it in the near term.  I can only presume some developers 
>took this to heart as offense because they felt like you are looking down on them.  And, like 
>the note above says, a lot of developers don't speak English as a first language so sometimes 
>the language barrier may make comments seem different emotionall than they really are. 
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>So, I am requesting that this stops now.  You have filed a number of reports so far, and 
>some of them are pending, and some have been resolved.  You are welcome to continue 
>filing reports as long as they are specific enough to be realizable by the devs.  However, this 
>bug will be closed and remain that way.   
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>If you want to be critical and helpful, you are welcome to do so.  If you want to be critical and 
>spiteful, please go away.  It doesn't matter who started it - I am ending it.
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I started it.  The question I wanted answered was whether the development
process had a customer focus or not.  The answer I got was that there
was a clash of views and that people without a customer focus had the
upper hand.

Since it seems that customer focus is not a high priority for kdevelop I
guess I'll look elsewhere when I decide how to expend my development
effort.  I may or may not use gideon, but I think I find something else
to help build.

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