[KDev3.4] Adding additional but *important* message to stable branch

dukju ahn dukjuahn at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 16:05:19 UTC 2007


2007/7/17, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de>:
> On 17.07.07 05:29:20, dukju ahn wrote:
> > Recently I read a bugreport that subversion plugin in 3.4 doesn't work
> > on svn+ssh protocol. The problem is not our code, but the user's lack
> > of proper knowledge of ssh+svn.
> >
> > To use svn+ssh from any GUI svn client, users should have running
> > daemon of ssh-agent, set environment variable "DISPLAY" and
> > "SSH_ASKPASS", and finally install "ssh-askpass" program. Also,
> > if users run kdevelop with terminal, password asking phrase will appear
> > on that terminal. Users without such knowledge will just think that
> > "its bug of kdevelop" and we will loose fame.
> >
> > My plan is to dispaly such
> > instructions into vcs selecting project setting page.
> >
> > Is it allowed?
>
> No, unless you get the Ok from the i18n people and maybe also the Ok
> from release team is required (not sure about that one). And you should
> probably formulate the text you want to display before that.

If i18n people disagree, why not release without any translation??
I think bug freeness is more important than translation. In svn+ssh case,
it is considered as bug by users although it's not a bug.
And who is release team exactly? Wasn't Matt maintainer of kdevelop?




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