Hi Dag & all, Am Mittwoch, 26. Oktober 2016, 14:03:12 CEST schrieb Dag: > Hi > Another month came and went, and not much happened... > I'm actually a little afraid of releasing because we might attract some > users. > Well, to be more precise, that there will be nobody to support those > users.
If I speak openly that is also my subjective line of thinking. Making a release of software means giving it to others and thus making a promise to them, so subscribing to moral responsibilities. Even while having spent so much time and energy into the porting over the last two years, I am not sure I am motivated to spent my bit of needed time into maintenance where needed by non-contributors currently. At least when it comes to the main Calligra editor apps. My personal interest is in the middleware and technology, and I joined the Calligra project because it was closest to what I would like to have, though with big plans for redesigning basic parts (and quite some draft branches are on my local disk). Which is also why I never officially signed up as maintainer of any of the maintainer-less apps, only for the plugins for Okular and some import filters. Still, to get some momentum in this discussion, I have just taken the liberty to push a commit which removes Braindump, Karbon app & Stage app from release builds, as there is no-one even coming close to be a maintainer. At least with Stage I hope that commit will trigger someone to react, but then hope dies last, they say ;) And by that commit I also express my hope that you the Plan, Sheets & Words maintainers will still do a release for your software, so that my porting contributions are coming to someone else's gain still. Besides that though I have to state now (also to myself) that I have no personal motivation to drive or invest into any release work right now, as there is no itch to scratch for myself here, especially when looking at the consequences. I will happily assist where possible though anyone with a Calligra 3.0 release for small related tasks. > Also, not to be forgotten, KChart and KGantt needs to be released. Yes, thanks for the push :) Though I have had already started to play around with the packaging scripts the other WE. As written in private email, planning for release on latest Nov. 7th. Cheers Friedrich
