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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Removal of Pixie?
From:       mosfet <mosfet () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-06-16 17:34:13
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Ugh, I am very tired. Can I have a translator to translate what I write
into my own language? ;-)

That should be:

> People can of course still contribute translations,
> documentation and bugfixes, and I'll probably set up a CVS independent
> of KDE. These contributions are very welcome and important, but other
> than minor bugfix contributions they are the *only* contributions made.
> Nothing really code-wise. The only real benefit of keeping Pixie in CVS
> was the translators and documenters, who do a really good job, but they
> don't have to work in KDE CVS. It will still use KDE
> documentation and translations format if they still wish to contribute.

mosfet wrote:
> 
> Tell that to the release maintainer... and calling me a "5yr old" isn't
> really an effective way to convince me to work with you guys anymore,
> either ;-)
> 
> People can of course still of course contribute translations,
> documentation and bugfixes, and I'll probably set up a CVS independent
> of KDE. These contributions are very welcome and important, but other
> than minor bugfix contributions they are the *only* contributions made.
> Nothing really code-wise. The only real benefit of keeping Pixie in CVS
> was the translators and documenters, who do a really good job, but they
> don't have to work outside of KDE CVS. It will still use KDE
> documentation and translations format if they still wish to contribute.
> 
> I also really wouldn't suggest forking my code and reimporting into CVS.
> If developers decide they want to do something else with their
> applications and remove it from the KDE packages, and you decide to fork
> it and import unofficial and unmaintained versions, your asking for a
> lot more problems. Putting applications in CVS without the authors
> permission or consent is a bad idea, and it would be better for users
> for them to use RPM's of official versions, not a KDE CVS fork.
...snip...
 
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