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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Replace korn with kbiff?
From:       Allan Sandfeld Jensen <snowwolf () one2one-networks ! com>
Date:       2001-07-27 19:53:46
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On Thursday 26 July 2001 20:04, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> On Thursday 26 July 2001 09:00 am, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:
> > is there any reason why korn is in KDE while kbiff isn't? Both are
> > email notifiers. Korn crashes with the "web style", can't deal with imap
> > or even maildir boxes and so on. kbiff OTOH can do all this and more.
>
> Yes, there is a reason -- Korn has somebody that agrees to maintain it..
> KBiff doesn't.
>
> KBiff is my "baby", the first KDE app I ever wrote.  However, I just can't
> justify spending the necessary amount of time to handle bug fixes and
> feature requests.  That's why KBiff was removed from kdenetwork after being
> in it for quite a few releases.
>
> I've tried at least 4 times in the past to get somebody else to maintain
> it.. but for one reason or another, none of them have panned out.  Until
> somebody agrees to ACTIVELY (no half-assed attempts.. I can do that on my
> own) care for it, it'll have to stay out of KDE CVS.

What does it require to maintain it? 
Any outstanding issues, updates to newer qt/kde?

-Allan
 
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