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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: TLS default enabled/disabled?
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-05-24 21:02:43
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Well spoken Don :-)

Cheers,
Waldo

On Thursday 24 May 2001 13:40, don@sanders.org wrote:
> 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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