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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Status of kdenetwork module
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-05-17 13:53:44
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On Wed, 17 May 2000, mosfet wrote:
> I talked to Simon about kvirc as well. KSirc seems essentially
> unmaintained right now and as someone who uses IRC a lot it really does
> need a lot of work. Not only fixing segfaults, but also with the UI.
> KVirc OTOH is very actively maintained and now has a crapload of
> features. This does make it rather huge (it has it's own help browser,
> etc...) but is a quite cool and actively maintained client IMHO.
>
> From my emails with him, he is willing to commit kvirc into CVS but not
> maintain it there. He would simply automatically update KDE CVS from his
> CVS for kvirc. He seems to want to have a little more control over it's
> development, which is understandable. Nonetheless I don't really think
> this is okay - things distributed in KDE packages should be maintained
> there as well so everyone can add essential fixes, etc...

Does not sound very good to me.

As somebody said: the problems will start if people fix bugs in our
CVS. Who will ensure that his CVS is updated?

And sending all bugfixes to him is also no good solution for the long
run.

Just my 0.02 Euro

--Stefan

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