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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: TLS default enabled/disabled?
From:       don () sanders ! org
Date:       2001-05-24 20:40:13
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cvs is simply a tool. We (the KMail maintainers) are free to use it as we think best.

With a project like KMail it's very rare to find people who are willing and able to care for \
the codebase. These people (Michael, Daniel, Andreas and increasingly other new contributors) \
are critical to the continued success - even existence - of the project.

Some (other) people contribute new features. These people make a valuable contribution too, but \
it is not as valuable as the contribution made by the maintainers. Feature contributors \
normally contribute a patch and then move on, never to heard from again.

Often patches for features are buggy and/or incomplete, they are debugged and finished by the \
maintainers over a long period of time (years). Buggy features are more likely to be a \
liability to the project than a benefit. I don't want to be involved with a project that values \
feature count over code quality.

The way we use cvs facilitates the activities of the maintainers, providing access for several \
trusted people to fix bugs. It's more open than the way the Linux kernel maintainers, FreeBSD \
maintainers and Apache group work. Keeping the code in cvs as high quality as possible, is a \
way of showing respect to each other. 

<quote>
> Also our opinion is, that the code in CVS should be always ready for
> general use, as long as there is no very good reason against that.

i appreciate your opinion on this, but i respectfully disagree. CVS is not 
for the storage of final pieces of work.
</quote>

Ultimately anyone is free to fork KMail and put it in a new cvs tree.

Don.


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