Dnia niedziela, 10 marca 2019 09:32:33 CET Martin Steigerwald pisze: > Dear Łukasz. > > Łukasz Wojniłowicz - 10.03.19, 07:48: > > I've created a fork of KMyMoney which is available at > > https://github.com/wojnilowicz/kmymoneynext > > I will be covering my work on it at > > https://github.com/wojnilowicz/wojnilowicz.github.io > > I wondered about the reasons of your fork and then found that you > mention two reasons in your blog: long release cycles and keeping vital > code in alkimia library¹. A long term goal of yours would be to port it > to Android in the future. > > What I wonder now: Did you talk with KMyMoney developers, especially > Thomas, about your plans?
I spoke two times with Thomas: 1) last year, shortly after 5.0.2 release, 2) this week, as I was ready with everything. > Why I am asking this? I wonder whether what you like to do really > requires a fork. There are already only a few developers working on > KMyMoney and there is already Skrooge as another application in that > area. That's true. Workforce is scarce and doesn't encourage to disunite. > I really wonder about the benefit of a KMyMoney fork. As a user of > KMyMoney at this point in time I have no motivation of switching away > from KMyMoney. From what I read about Android security, currently there > is no chance at all that I am going to run such a sensitive application > on it. The less stuff is running on it, the better. Even with AOSP > without Google apps but F-Droid instead aka Fairphone OpenOS. I do not encourage anyone to switch as there is little to no benefit at present time. > It is of course your choice what you do with your time, so good luck and > good success in what you like to accomplish. Thank you for your kind word. Cheers Łukasz
