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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: libkdchart api stability?
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2010-03-23 11:48:08
Message-ID: 201003231248.08527.zander () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 23. March 2010 12.37.07 Inge Wallin wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 March 2010 08:55:56 Thomas Zander wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23. March 2010 05.39.01 Carlos Licea wrote:
> > > I would vote for keeping the copy in KOffice for the time being.
> > > Otherwise we  could jeopardize responsiveness in bug fixing.
> > 
> > I'm sorry to say, but for that reason I think the exact opposite should
> > happen.
> > From experience it shows that if its easy to get your fix in your local
> > 
> >  tree then the incentive to do the right thing and push it upstream
> >  becomes an afterthought that in my experience is dropped too often.
> 
> In general I would say that you are right, but in this case the people
> actually doing the fixing is the same people who own and maintain kdchart:
> kdab.

If they maintain it they can then easily make a release too which takes away 
the whole problem Carlos hinted at.

> > If Nokia needs a fix that didn't make it into a release yet then there
> > are several options available for it to include the patch in the actual
> > build
> > 
> >  it ships. All of them suboptimal, but thats the point; it should go
> >  upstream.
> > 
> > Please, if possible setup the open source environment in such a way that
> > 
> >  the right thing to do is the easiest solution. That way you avoid a lot
> >  of management and end up with a more sustainable long term ecology.
> 
> In the long term, I think it's already decided that kdab will maintain a
> separate package.

Great!
Sidenote; Notice that my point of 'long term ecology' is not about who 
maintains kdchart :)

> In the short term (until 2.3?) I think we should keep it
> as it is, possibly moving it somewhere within koffice.

Why would you move it within KOffice? And how does that help Rex packaging it 
for kmymoney?
And more importantly; why would you *not* move it out of KOffice to help Rex, 
again, for kmymoney?

-- 
Thomas Zander
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