Re: [Kreatecd-devel] me causing trouble

[Alexander F. <Ale...@gm...>]

Am Die, 2001-10-16 um 15.11 schrieb 1003237871:
> Hi
> 
> > I heard that multiplatform support is a major requirement to be added to
> > KDE CVS. I wonder how the will manage it to be added if there is only
> > support for Linux planned.
> 
> It's not that important anymore, there are quite a view applications / modules 
> which are only compiled on specific plattforms.
> 
> > > But I would advise you not to underestimate the "it's already
> > > installed" factor.  Technical superiority counts for little, as any
> > > Betamax owner will tell you.  So I do suggest that trying to get
> > > KreateCD incorporated in the KDE CVS is a good idea.
> >
> > We were asked if we want to add kreatecd into the KDE CVS and there was
> > some discussion about that in IRC. We (kreatecd developers) discussed
> > about that and we finally agreed that we don't want to be in KDE CVS.
> > Since then we didn't change our minds.
> >
> > The addition of KOnCD could be a reason to think about that again.
> >
> 
> 
> I think the main reason we decided to stay out of KDE-CVS, because than we can 
> do our own release schedules, but we should really consider, if it is such a 
> big disadvantage, if we would obey their feature/messages freezes. We can 
> still release updated versions in betweeen of KDE releases.
> 

Yes. This was the main disadvantage. The current release plan of KDE 3
would hit us hard. There is a feature freeze at 2001-11-02. We just had
a feature freeze and I planned to add some new features. (dao support
...)

Doing releases between KDE releases will be very hard. I don't know
whether we allowed to make CVS branches to fork for a release. 

> There would be some advantages, when we move to KDE-CVS:
> 	1)	possibly more users -> more testers / bugreports / ....
> 	2)	(1) -> perahaps we will finally become really "multi-platfform"
> 	3)	It could be, we get some more developers
> 	4)	Don't know anything else at the moment
> 

I see these advantages too. I probably could live with being in KDE-CVS,
although I think there will be problems with the release schedule (at
least at the beginning). It will probably improve when we are
accommodated to the KDE CVS rhythm. 

Alexander