From kde-core-devel  Tue Nov 02 09:50:04 2010
From: Chani <chanika () gmail ! com>
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:50:04 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: "Cornelius's grand plan" - Merging KDElibs into Qt
Message-Id: <201011021050.04740.chanika () gmail ! com>
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On November 1, 2010 09:39:56 Michael Jansen wrote:
> > it could work out great, it could be a disaster, it could be a lot of
> > work for a little gain ... we just can't tell right now because it's
> > nothing more than a vague idea.
> >=20
> > you really can't plan the future of core assets like that.
>=20
> But preparing our our assets in a way that would make identifiying and
> merging stuff into qt easy would benefit our visibility even if the
> merging never happens.
>=20

+1 - this has been a great brainstorming exercise. :)
there are certainly obstacles to the "merger" idea, and a fair chance of it=
=20
turning out to be infeasible or unwanted (while I hope the open governance=
=20
thing keeps improving, I'm not going to put blind faith in it) but it got u=
s=20
thinking, didn't it? :)

modularizing and promoting kdelibs looks like something we can all agree=20
should be done. separating it into generally-useful features vs. workspace=
=20
integration features, allowing people to use just some of it, *telling* the=
m=20
what we have and how easy it is to use it and why it'll make their applicat=
ion=20
shoot magical rainbow lasers ;)

=2E..so now I suppose it's time to start doing it. Not the actual modulariz=
ation=20
right away, of course, but planning what can be done and documenting what w=
e=20
have and advertising to people outside kde that yes, we have these features=
=20
and they're great and you want to use them even if it does mean linking to=
=20
some other stuff right now. :)

=2D-=20
Chani
http://chani.ca

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