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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: The breadth of the freeze
From:       Jens Hoefkens <hoefkens () msu ! edu>
Date:       2001-02-08 14:42:24
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Adriaan de Groot wrote:

> On Wednesday 07 February 2001 18:48, Michael Jarrett wrote:
> > Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > > I believe that several bugreports are even caused by the TCP/IP layer,
> > > and I'd like to ditch it as soon as possible but have been holding off
> > > because of this feature freeze. What do people think? Are major changes
> > > in app-internal thingies that may fix bugs without changing strings
> > > acceptable, or should I just leave it as is till the 18th?
> >
> > Another issue is if your fixes will create new bugs that are worse than
> > the ones you fixed. All the people using packaged versions of KDE won't
> > be filing bugs on it, so you might not find out until it's too late.
> 
> Ah yes, my hubris to think I know what I'm doing :) I started /
> tried it again, just separating the different functionalities of one
> of these mixed up parts of the TCP/IP link, but it bogged down
> almost immediately in a serious amount of code-cleaning,
> cruft-removal etc. Nothing that produces an understandable patch. So
> I'll leave it until 2.1 and just write little code cleanups till
> then.

But that still leaves the question of what is acceptable and what
not. Some of the translators have approached me and suggested some
changes to the (user-visible) strings in KBackgammon. But since this
would definitely break the existing translations (although it would
allow for translations to languages other than English and German), I
am quite confused...

Could somebody please shed some light on this?

The other issue is that I would _love_ to improve the (rather
pathetic) documentation of KBackgammon - would that be acceptable?


Ciao,
	
							Jens

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