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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Last attempt at reconciliation
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2002-09-21 22:36:36
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On Saturday September 21, 2002 05:45, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Thursday 19 September 2002 23:30, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > 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.
>
> The difference between these examples and KMail is that except for one
> small issue all KMail developers agree on the future of KMail. So there
> is obviously no reason for two different version of KMail.

Development methods are not a small issue, especially in the case of 
volunteers, for whom enjoying the development method might be the only 
payback from KMail development.

> So you think it's better to develop two versions of KMail with 3-5
> developers each than to join our forces again after the release of KDE
> 3.1?

Yes, yes I do.  KMail is so stagnant (save for the BSI development) that 
there is no bugfixing improvement.  All adding more developers will do is  
run into Brooks' law: a further slowdown in development.

- -- 
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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