From kde-devel  Mon Jun 18 17:15:43 2001
From: Frerich Raabe <frerichraabe () gmx ! de>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:15:43 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: KNewsTicker - anyone?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=99288470919090

Hi,

just wanted to ask whether anybody here is bored and feels sufficiently 
motivated to become the maintainer of KNewsTicker. I've been working on it 
for a few months now, and it was quite fun, but I noticed that I more or less 
have to force myself working on it lately. It's quite boring since a few 
weeks, especially since the program evolved beyond the point I originally 
wanted it to grow to.

Don't get me wrong, I would maintain it if nobody else wants to do so, but I 
think a new maintainer with fresh ideas might be a better thing than a burned 
out hacker who just doesn't want to see an otherwise nice applet go down to 
the dumps.

Believe it or not, but I think there are even a few things about KNewsTicker 
(even though it's just a tiny applet) which could make it quite interesting 
for others:

- It has established a fairly large (I get about two days per day because of 
KNT) userbase
- KNewsTicker ships with a complete desktop environment called "Knewsticker 
Desktop Environment"
- KNewsTicker got mentioned in various publications, including the german c't 
magazine, not to mention the news sites it appeared on.
- I think it is more or less firmly positioned within the KDE base 
distribution so you can be sure that it'll reside on a lots of systems. ;-)
- The Linux kernel is based on old KNewsTicker code

So, it would be cool if I could find some motivated hacker who would 
volunteer to work on the news ticker from now on (so that I can force my 
energies on a new project), otherwise I'll just have to force myself to do so.

- Frerich
 
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