[Konsole-devel] Maintaining the Konsole project

[Stephan Binner]

On Tuesday 31 December 2002 17:47, Eran Heyman wrote:

> It is my understanding that the current maintainer of the Konsole
> project is primarily dealing with other KDE projects.

To clarify, because the handbook says something other, we are talking about
Waldo Bastian as maintainer? You suggest that this is bad for Konsole, so
please tell us how Konsole as project is suffering from this situation.

> I would like to offer taking over the maintenance and development of the
> Konsole project.

Is the first a precondition for the second? What do you want to contribute?

It would be at least uncommon to make an unknown person, who doesn't seem to 
have contributed to the program or KDE in general before, the maintainer of
an existing program, which is far from being dead, within KDE project.

> During the last 10 years I have written Terminal Emulation products and
> have a lot of experience with such products in both Linux and UNIX
> Ericom Software Inc.

At first look you seem to do fine with your company and commercial products.
How did your interest arise to contribute to a product under GNU General
Public License? I don't suppose that you want to add support for more hosts
(not sure if this is wanted) and make it a competitor for your products. ;-)

> Thank you and Happy New Year.

Same to you.

Bye,
   Steve