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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    KOffice arbitration is finished
From:       Thomas Thym <ungethym () mevin ! net>
Date:       2011-06-11 19:05:49
Message-ID: 201106112105.50562.ungethym () mevin ! net
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In October 2010 the disagreements in the KOffice team got to a point when the \
developers decided it is better for the project to split.[1] Like in real life such \
splits are not easy. Not every issue could be solved by the team itself. Finally they \
agreed on an arbitration with a binding result.

After many hours of hard work of both teams I am proud to announce the solution of \
the KOffice split arbitration.

There were highs and not so happy times but all in all the two teams did a great job, \
and cooperated to find the best solution possible. In the end the two teams agreed on \
most of the major issues. (Sadly some points had to be decided without an agreement.)

The goal: Both teams want to focus on their projects, want peace to concentrate on \
bringing their software further and to provide clear information and guidance for \
their users. 

The major points of the agreement are:
- Team A (around Thomas Zander) is allowed to keep the name KOffice and KWord, \
                including the communication channels (website, mailing lists, irc \
                channel etc.). 
- Team B (now called Calligra suite) is allowed to keep the names Kexi, Krita and \
                Karbon.
- All other applications are or will be renamed.
- To make it clearer to all users of the original KOffice project, all application \
names not used by the project anymore have to be deleted from the koffice.org \
website. There will be a footer that informs about the split on the ML and IRC until \
                the end of year. 
- The teams want to go their separate own ways and do not want to interact or \
interfere with each other. (The calligra team is allowed to answer questions in \
#koffice on irc until the next major release of the software of either team.)

For details see the attached decision.

Both teams have now a clear basis to build their future upon. They can focus on their \
projects for the best for them, KDE and the whole Free Software Community.

I hope to see both office suites flourish in the future. All my best wishes to both.

Thomas
(The arbitrator)

[1] Summarized background information about the split: \
http://lwn.net/Articles/419822/


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