Re: More on KDE's Status

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa>]

On Yau al-Thulatha 16 Thu al-Qi`dah 1425 8:08 pm, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> --- Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 17:12 +0300, Munzir Taha wrote:
> > > > 3. I will no longer accept proxied commits to the CVS, unless there
> > > > is a formal agreement between Arabeyes (done through Core) with a
> > > > different entity.
> > >
> > > Interesting! Didn't we reach that agreement before and you asked us do
> > > it like this? So from now on I can't commit and say on behalf of such
> > > and such from my team? Only arabeyes is allowed proxied commits to KDE
> > > main but we are not?
> >
> > Yes and I am revoking this 'agreement'.
>
> Ah... I don't think this is something we ought to do and most certainly
> not _now_.  I highly suggest you take this up with 'core' to further
> clarify the matter.  I know alot has been said and there are raw nerves
> maybe on both ends and to be completely honest and frank 99.9% of what
> I read is shear silly and sophomoric at best.



> > I believe it is better for me to work directly with translators who are
> > interested in translating KDE. As the coordinator, I am more interested
> > in the concept and philosophy of volunteerism than having n thousand
> > strings translated by someone who has no conception of Open Source
> > software. In other words, I would rather have 2 volunteers who
> > understand Open Source and do it for the love of it than 10 paid
> > translators who are not involved in anything Open Source related.

> I think we are all in this "boat" and this was noted many times before.
> Having an established agreement with a said entity does preclude one
> from simply changing their mind midstream - again, we are a professional
> group who would like to uphold professional conduct.  If there is a
> change of heart then this topic needs to be brought-up in the context
> of a defined deadline (ie. "the policy will change starting with 3.3
> release" or similar) to have a rational open debate about the topic.

Nadim, congratulations for the voice of wisdom!

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