[rekonq] Fwd: Want rekonq to become the default browser?

[Eelko Berkenpies]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Eelko Berkenpies <kaboon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Markus <kamikazow at web.de> wrote:
>> Hi there.
>>
>> Important dates:
>> 2010-01-26       Fedora feature Submission Deadline
>> February 2010    (K)Ubuntu feature freeze (no idea when submission deadline is)
>>
>> openSUSE 11.3 will be released in July 2010. So there's still some time left.
>>
>> Bye,
>> Markus
>
> The final Fedora 13 software freeze would take place at 2010-03-23 as
> long as it won't get postponed for whatever reason :). The feature
> submission deadline is a deadline for release specific improvements
> (such as RPM4.8, Python 3 Fedora 13, System Rollback With Btrfs,
> Upstart0.6.0, Yum Language Package Plugin).
>
> Even after the beta freeze you can request a build-system override.
> But you'd need to have a very good reason for that to do so.
>
> As far as plans for making rekonq the default browser within the
> Fedora-KDE project, I haven't heard of any. I'm keeping an eye on most
> of the important Fedora mailing lists within the Fedora Project but I
> never (unfortunately) read anything about rekonq yet, besides me doing
> some advertisements on planet.fedoraproject.org.
>
> I'd be more than happy to help on making it a default within Fedora
> (if possible at all) but I'm not sure if rekonq is mature enough (no
> offense, I personally think that you guys are doing a great job) at
> this point.
>
> Regarding the name, IMHO, there shouldn't be changed anything about
> it. I like rekonq (and the way it's spelled too). At this point
> switching would not be worth the work it requires.
>
> Here's a short list of what you'd need to either register or rename
> from the top of my head;
>
> 1. the SourceForge project.
> 2. the project at Gitorious.
> 3. the project.
> 4. the name within the distro's shipping the project.
> 5. perhaps evenkde-svn for the time being?
> 6. techbase and the other kde wiki's it's listed at.
> 7. a new mailinglist.
>
> And besides that, people are starting to know the rekonq project and
> it could be a bit confusing to switch to a new name. Unless it's for
> legal reasons, I wouldn't change the name ( but hey, that's just my
> opinion =) ). I'd rather see the time spend on bugfixes and developing
> new features.
>
> --
> With kind regards / Met vriendelijke groet,
>
> Eelko Berkenpies
> http://blog.berkenpies.nl/
>

Meh, silly Google messed up again (reply button), here's a copy to the list. :/

-- 
With kind regards / Met vriendelijke groet,

Eelko Berkenpies
http://blog.berkenpies.nl/