KDevelop Maintainership

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 25 August 2008, Alexander Dymo wrote:
> On Thursday 21 August 2008 18:23:39 David Nolden wrote:
> > Is there actually something we need an official maintainer for? Else I
> > propose that we go on like now, as you propose.
>
> IMHO there's only one thing KDevelop 4 maintainer can do - is to release
> 4.0 as a complete product, not just a collection of core + plugins.
>
> For that we need a person with a clear vision of KDevelop and the
> willingness to enforce that vision. We have great people on the team and
> great code in svn, we just need to put all this together. And yeah, this
> means that maintainer should be (in my opinion) the one person, not a
> group.

I agree, the job of a maintainer is not only to care for released stuff and 
fix bugs, he can/should also give some direction to the project. This is 
necessary also before anything is released.

Alex