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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KOffice: The only thing worse than failure is the fear of
From:       Matthias Kalle Dalheimer <kalle () klaralvdalens-datakonsult ! se>
Date:       2004-01-02 11:18:40
Message-ID: 200401021218.40697.kalle () klaralvdalens-datakonsult ! se
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Stefan,

you have put forth quite substantial complaints about Lukas, but not 
substantiated them with any justification or explanation. It is against 
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB's policy to influence internal organizational 
decisions of the KDE project, but personally, as a KDE developer, and the 
current President of KDE e.V., I am of course interested in helping to 
resolve any potential problems. In order to enable me to consider taking 
action, I will need you to:

- give concrete examples about why you think Lukas is not suitable of leading 
the KOffice project, preferably including excerpts of email or other 
communication (if those excerpts have not been published to a public mailing 
list by the author, it would be inappropriate to do it now, please send those 
in private mail directly to me)

- describe your and your co-signers' personal relation to the KDE project. 
Since you do not complain about technical issues like software quality or the 
like, but rather about organizational issues, I do assume that you are 
contributing to KDE in some way already, as the internal organization of the 
KDE project is only the business of the KDE contributors (developers, 
translators, artists, etc.) themselves. I already apologize in advance for 
not recognizing you, the project has simply grown too large for me to know 
all contributors. Please also include your co-signers' email addresses so 
that I can include them in further communication.

However, if you are not able to provide these kinds of evidence to 
substantiate your claims, a public apology from your side to Lukas and the 
other KOffice developers would be in order.

Kalle

On Friday 02 January 2004 03.30, stefan_carl wrote:
> To All KOffice Developers,
>
> 	We, the undersigned, believe that KOffice has failed to provide a
> compelling desktop office suite for KDE users. Furthermore, we believe that
> this can be attributed to Lukas Tinkl's inability to lead the KOffice
> development team. The collapse of the KOffice 1.3 release schedule and
> KDE-Debian's refusal of KOffice has clearly demonstrated the need for a new
> beginning.
>
> 	We believe that the failure of KOffice can be attributed to Lukas
> Tinkl's lack of interpersonal skills and indecisiveness. We wish to bring
> forth the plight of the Czech translator, where Lukas Tinkl failed to
> recognise his talents and contributions to KDE.
>
> 	Therefore, we ask Lukas Tinkl to show reason, within 48 hours, why
> he should not be removed from his current capacity as maintainer/release
> coordinator for KOffice.
>
> 	Should he fail to do so, we propose that David Faure be reinstated
> as maintainer of KOffice in light of his leadership and organisational
> talents, and his previous success in this position.
>
> 	We ask that KlavadalensdatkonsultAB to support David Faure in this
> endeavour. We also ask all developers who believe that David Faure would be
> a superior maintainer to Lukas Tinkl, to sign this petition. If, however,
> should you decide that Lukas Tinkl is better suited to this position, then
> please ignore this message and we apologise for your time.
>
> Respectfully,
> 1. Stefan Carl
> 2. Azuya Hunt
> 3. Chief Nelson Udu

-- 
Matthias Kalle Dalheimer
President & CEO
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB
Platform-independent software solutions

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