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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Last attempt at reconciliation
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2002-09-19 21:30:13
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On Thursday September 19, 2002 05:19, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 September 2002 4:34 pm, Don Sanders wrote:
> |  I have been thinking some more about my position.
> |
> |  I would like to present Michael the following final offer at a
> |  compromise:
> |
> |  I be allowed to fork KMail and begin work on KMail2 a mail client
> |  largely based on KMail but with the intention of making radical
> |  fundamental changes to the core architecture as I describe in
> |  my "Stuff I'm working on" mail.
>
> Hello Don!
>
> I am a 2-years+ user of KMail, and I am very happy with KMail and how
> it's becoming better and better.
> It would be sad for me if KMail is branched, and some of the branches go
> away/disappears.
> I remember whne some time ago TheKompany announced Aethera, which was
> forked Magellan project from KAlliance.
> Now Kalliance.org is dead, and Aethera still not reached stable/usable
> state (2 years after that happened...)
> Do we need to repeat those mistakes? I hope not.

I'll see your anecdote and raise you one:

emacs vs xemacs - two forks each thriving today.

quanta vs quanta - Despite 3 of 4 developers leaving behind the GPL version 
for TheKompany, Quanta continues today, if delayed.

Oh, and I'll back it up with some thinking:

This is free software.  A fork can't take anything away from the original 
unless it takes manpower from the original.  In the case of make_it_cool 
KMail we have three developers who had not been major developers of KMail 
in a while, or ever.  HEAD KMail loses nothing, and won't be "killed" by 
this.
- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding
because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they
have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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