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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KOffice split
From:       Yue Liu <opuspace () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-10-23 10:26:01
Message-ID: AANLkTikd1gt+14XV3-REzNELqJivL+Tivt7853ouf=C4 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Kivio currently doesn't have any maintainer...
What is the requirement and responsibility to be a maintainer? I'm
interested in it.

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Cyrille Berger Skott
<cberger@cberger.net> wrote:
> Dear fellow members of the community,
>
> As you might be aware, after months of discussions, it has been concluded
> that the best solution is to split the community.
>
> However, the split is going to happen at application level. The maintainer
> of each application will be asked to consult his fellow developers to decide
> in which group, A or B, the application will lived. The other group is free
> to fork the application under a different name. It is also possible for the
> developers to change the application name and ask that the current name is
> not used by any of the group. This can be used as an opportunity for a fresh
> start.
>
> Currently, to the best of my knowledge the groups are composed of the
> following applications:
>
> Group A: KWord
>
> Group B: KPresenter, Krita, Karbon, Kexi
>
> Since the license give the right for a fork, I can already mention that
> Group B will come with a fork of KWord, under a name that has yet to be
> decided. Group A is free to fork any application of Group B under a
> different name.
>
> Maintainers have until Sunday October 31th to decide with which group to go.
> Applications that have not choosen a group will have to be renamed by each
> group.
>
> The KDE e.V. board will be asked to decide what happen to the KOffice name,
> the KOffice website, the KOffice mailing list, KOffice.org, KOffice wiki and
> the KOffice bugzilla product. The recommendation from members of the CWG is
> to retire the name KOffice altogether, which will allow both side to start
> on a fresh start and leave the past behind. Then the application maintainers
> and developers of each group will have one week to find a new name for their
> suite, and move to another place in the KDE subversion tree and to rename or
> remove the applications that are in the other group.
>
> In the meantime, I am suspending the KOffice release process, meaning that I
> will release Beta 3, but that the date for the following release is
> undefined. The reason is that I do not feel confident that the splitting
> will happen in time before the RC1, and I do not think it is a good idea to
> ship a RC release that will get different applications than the final
> release. If the splitting takes more time, I will proceed with one more
> beta. I also advise each group to ensure that they have a release
> coordinator.
>
> I will urge readers of this letter to:
>
> 1) refrain discussion around the splitting outside the mailing list, or to
> do so in private conversation
>
> 2) acknowledge, that at this point there is no sense in trying to place the
> blame anywhere, we just have to accept the fact
>
> 3) remain civilised and polite in this difficult moment
>
> --
>
> Cyrille Berger Skott
>
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