KDE Packagers - What's the plan/roadmap/future & timescale?
Hi,
Sorry if this request implies you must recapitulate anything,
but after considering the alternatives, this seemed the better option.
I know there was a scramble to take on packages & quickly find a solution
to the image/icon problem when Ivan released the packages he was maintaining.
Now that that issue seems to be largely past, I would
appreciate it if you both would take a moment and answer a few questions,
involving things such as:
1) Who you are, what you do in real life, how you got involved in Debian,
and involved in KDE, what (if anything) you packaged in Debian before this,
what (if anything) you did in KDE before this, why & how you came to the
decision to take on maintainership of the KDE packages.
2) What do you see as the time frame for upcomming Debian/KDE milestones?
Such as:
A) What is the plan/roadmap/future for KDE related things in Debian?
the metapackage (or, what is it called now? Task?) of kde vs of kdebase.
B) What's up w/ KOffice for Debian? Re: Woody or Sid?
C) What's your recommendation regarding: would you advise people who want
to be making productive use of KDE now to run Woody or Sid?
D) What's up w/ KDE 3? - When, and for whom, should persons trying to make
actual daily use of KDE begin to use KDE3? Can KDE2 & KDE3 be put onto
the same system, and switched between? Is it necessary to do a complete
separate Debian install, (one for KDE2 & one for KDE3) on the harddisk
if one wants to be able to try switch between 2 & 3?
I ask these questions since I'd like to make some judgements about what to
put in the KDE HowTo I'm developing. For instance, I'd like to have good
data to base a decision on regarding: should I suggest, (and write it from
the perspective of) persons run Woody, and if necessary pull packages from
Sid? Or, is & will Sid be basically enough free of substantial problems
that it would be better for most people trying to do productive work with
KDE that they run Sid, in order to have the latest features?
(For instance, two areas I'm currently possibly affected by are:
1) Kghostview - does the Sid version fix a major problem?
2) kde vs kdebase - does Sid have a kde package that provides
many more features (& thus involves much less sw installation time/effort)
than Woody?)
It would be much appreciated if you would each free up some of your
valueable time to each answer the above questions for all here who are
interested in the future of KDE on Debian!
Thanks. :)
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