Quoting Bernd Zeimetz (2021-01-09 22:09:06) > > Since then, he continued develop under original project name > > Valentina, whereas Seamly2D virtually stalled with no substantial > > code changes , only superficial changes to build infrastructure, > > locales, and icons. > > well, compared to valentina it seems to have way more pull requests > and is at least very responsive to requests. Looking on valentina it > seems to be a one-man-show - more or less.
Seems to me that Seamly2D is similarly a one-woman-show - difference (disregarding sexes) being that one is good with code and the other is good with words and people. But I might be wrong. Or maybe code is largely "done" and only _need_ smaller polishing. > > I recommend that Debian does not carry Seamly3D, and encourage > > helping out with maintaining Valentina instead. > > Would have been nice to know about that after I've opened the RFP bug > - to be hones I haven't even been able to find valentina with apt, > maybe I've searched for the wrong words. For future sake, I recommend to share RFPs and ITPs to debian-devel@l.d.o as is the default for reportbug - I and some others check those and I am pretty sure I would have reacted when I saw this one - just as I did when I saw it appear in incoming.debian.org. That said, you got a point about keywords - and curiously, you didn't add "sewing" to long description of Seamly2D either :-P > > If you disagree, then I just wish you the best of luck with > > Seamly3D. I admit the severity is bloated - feel free to lower as > > you see fit. > > I think keeping one of them in Debian is the better option, but for > now I'm not sure whats the best option. I'd be very happy to > co-maintain one. Never planned to put seamly2d into bullseye, so don't > worry about severities. I genuinely think that if you still find Seamly2D worthy of investing your time on, after looking into the material shared below, then keep maintaining that in Debian. Currently I am maintaining Valentina alone, but in a team intented to hold more people interested: Debian Design team. You are most welcome to join that team - even if you expect to mostly be working on your own and care mostly for Seamly3D. > Any idea why there is a fork at all? (feel free to reply in > private...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_(software) has a summary, with link to a longer blog entry about it. Following trails from there, I found this post which seems essential: https://web.archive.org/web/20171216140149/http://valentinaproject.forumotion.me/t23-my-vision I found no similar information from Seamly2D side of the fork. If you find any then please do share. Seems to me that Seamly2D has created a stronger brand with more fans, whereas Valentina has more programmers involved (i.e. has "only one" or "one at all", depending how you look at it). I was hoping that the strong community of Seamly2D would lead to more sample documents than the relatively few shipped with Valentina, but I have so far not been able to locate any, and it seems all blog posts in Seamly2D shares only PDFs, no *source* patterns. Therefore I also am unaware how compatible Valentina and Seamly2D is in their document formats, if at all. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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