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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo]  Re:  Re:  Re:  Re:  Re:  WSJ Strikeout and TypeHeads
From:       Chris Howells <howells () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-04-15 13:43:59
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Hi,

On Tuesday 15 April 2003 12:47, Neil Stevens wrote:

> to KDE.  KDE's shipping of reverse-engineered code hasn't been slowed by
> US law, but at least one KDE app has been renamed because of German law.

That's probably because active legal action required the name changes due to a 
stupid German legal law, whereas while the DMCA (which I guess you're 
referring to for the reverse-engineered) is a real law, there has been no 
actual threats due to it, AFAIK.

> Sure.  I always liked that map.  I wonder what I'm getting myself into,
> though.  If worldwide.kde.org is going to be moved to www and the mirror
> system, then won't the map have to be hand-generated from now on? :-)

The map has always been generated by hand :( Currently it's generated by 
pasting the output of e-mails generated by a PHP form into a text file which 
is processed by some perl and the output of the perl processed by the map 
program (the name of which escapes me at present).

I do have some names which haven't yet been put on a map because the current 
perl script isn't very good at error handling and somewhere there is a slight 
error in the text database (which I haven't been able to find) which means 
that the perl fails.

Because this is all quite a laborious process I unfortunately haven't been 
very good at it.

I suppose a better method would be to have the form data inserted into a MySQL 
database (afaik there is one on ktown that could presumably be used), 
periodically have a cron job dump these to a file, and then generate the map.

Somehow though you'd have to get a mechanism in to decide who should be 
included and who shouldn't -- there's been quite a few submissions by people 
who quite possibly have absolutely nothing to do with KDE and I've never 
heard of. This has done by me simply deciding who should and shouldn't be 
included -- I read core-devel and lots of other lists and am quite good at 
remembering names so I think I manage to successfully include real 
contributors and exclude those that aren't.

-- 
Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org
Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 33795A2C
KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://printing.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org


 
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