From kde-core-devel  Tue May 01 21:23:09 2001
From: Shawn Gordon <shawn () thekompany ! com>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 21:23:09 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Possible cause of kivio problems
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=98875239826121

At 01:55 PM 5/1/2001, you wrote:
>On Tuesday 01 May 2001 19:13, Waldo Bastian wrote:
>
> > Reading this discussion I think it was a mistake to put Kivio into KOffice
> > and I suggest to take it out again. If the hourly rate of theKompany
> > developers is more important than the unpaid hours of KDE developers there
> > is something fundamentally wrong.
>
>I feel like I'm stating the obvious here : *of course* their time is more
>important. If somebody breaks my code in cvs, that's ok. I'll be angry, but
>the only damage is wasted time. If somebody breaks kivio just before a
>release, then that might mean lost customers. Yes, that's not what happened
>here, but I think that's what Shawn is mostly afraid of.
>
> > We have issues like this (with people breaking stuff) in other parts of KDE
> > constantly and that gets solved with communication. Appearantly theKompany
> > does not have time for that so I suggest they take their stuff and put it
> > somewhere else.
>
>I agree, if kivio's developers are staying out of the communication channels
>of the platform they are working on, it simply can't work.
>
>--
>                                         Guillaume.
>                                         http://www.telegraph-road.org

To clear up the one main point.  The original, and main develop of Kivio is 
Dave Marotti, and he is on the koffice-devel list.  I have now subscribed 
myself.

Regards,

Shawn Gordon
President
theKompany.com
www.thekompany.com
949-713-3276