Pretty hard to ask a maintainer that hasn't responded since 1999. I have little doubt that the commits are done by paid distribution employees. Just like Montel and others sweeps by calligra from time to time.
On Monday 21 November 2011 15:09:18 Pierre Stirnweiss wrote: > Well, if he has updated it to make it compile, it is still in a maintained > state. It shows the developer(s) is(are) still interrested at providing > their software. The very least we have to (and a strong emphasise on the > "have to") is to speak with him(them) before even pushing much further the > possibility of reusing the name. > > PierreSt > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:05 PM, C. Boemann <c...@boemann.dk> wrote: > > On Monday 21 November 2011 14:58:18 you wrote: > > > On 11/21/2011 02:03 PM, C. Boemann wrote: > > > > On Monday 21 November 2011 13:50:38 Pierre Stirnweiss wrote: > > > >>>> 1. Abacus (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other > > > >>>> choices) > > > >>> > > > >>> Even if it won the competition it is a bad choice as there is > > > > already a > > > > > >>> spreadsheet application out there with this name. See > > > >>> http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/deskutils/abacus.html > > > >>> > > > >>> If there is already a spreadsheet application with this name, then > > > > this > > > > > >>> is > > > >> > > > >> an absolute no-go for me. How would we feel if some other project > > > >> was developping an application suite with: > > > >> YetAnotherApplicationSuite Words: text processor > > > >> YAAS Stage: presentation > > > >> YAAS Kexi: DB > > > >> YAAS Krita: painting > > > >> .... > > > >> > > > >> Don't do others what you wouldn't want to be done to you. > > > >> > > > >> My 2 cts, > > > >> > > > >> PierreSt > > > > > > > > except that that other Abacus has been dead for 14 years or so > > > > > > 1) It's in the openSuse and Ubuntu repos. > > > 2) The last change in the changelog at > > > > http://pkgs.org/opensuse-11.4/opensuse-contrib-i586/xabacus-7.4.1-1.2.i58 > > 6 . > > > > > rpm.html is from 2008 what makes it 3 years old and not 14. > > > 3) The last change in the changelog at > > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xabacus/+changelog is from 2011 > > > what means it's still activly developed. > > > > > > In any case I think that are exactly the reasons why we should have a > > > discussion at the mailinglist before. > > > > Take a closer look at the changelog at: > > http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/deskutils/abacus.html > > > > It's quite clear it has only been updated to make it compile - no active > > development. > > _______________________________________________ > > calligra-devel mailing list > > calligra-devel@kde.org > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
