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On Saturday 18 August 2007, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> I'm not involved in this, but I'd like to suggest something: maybe open a
> webpage at fd.o, but keep the repository in KDE SVN... Would that work?

Of course I can't be sure, but I am afraid that it won't.

There is some kind of perception barrier around KDE. The moment something=20
enters "our" realm, it gets "tainted".

See Strigi for example: when Jos (the other one) moved it to kdesupport, it=
=20
basically became "KDE's search engine". People will just assume that it has=
=20
all sorts of "evil" KDE dependencies and developers who are clever enought =
to=20
check for themselves and decide to use it, will get flamed by their users a=
nd=20
probably also by peers why on earth the started to "create a dependency on=
=20
KDE".

You might have read Jos (again the other one :)) write about this XML outpu=
t=20
thingy he has created in order to allow third parties to use the file data=
=20
extraction framework to feed any other indexer, i.e. not actually use Strig=
i=20
as the "search engine" but still be able to use the underlying libraries=20
capabilities for data gathering.
I might be wrong, but my current bet is that this will not happen.

This is just an immensely political issue. Moving to freedesktop.org=20
infrastructure is not a magical way of "untainting" your code, but it remov=
es=20
a lot of potential ammunition against you.

Lets be frank:
=2D having parts of the project, e.g. akonadiserver, hosted elsewhere will =
make=20
development more difficult
=2D if at all, adoption by others will take a long time

So what do we gain?
=2D not yet again, a couple of years down the road, being told "why do you =
not=20
use standard $foo, like 'everyone else'?"
=2D publicity (which can possibly lead to other advantages, e.g. attract=20
developers, see KOffice)

Or in the form of an anology:
it is like the difference between a vocal and a written invitation to a par=
ty:=20
doesn't mean they show up, but it is unlikely they will deny having known=20
about it.

Cheers,
Kevin

=2D-=20
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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