On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 07:02 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Thursday 26 October 2006 06:58, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> Two questions:
> Q1: Will FC7's infrastructure include the tools required to get an
> pre-defined KDE -extra snapshot on release day?
That is the goal yes. We made great strides with FC6 to get to this point.
Now its the last mile. Not only do we want to be able to have extra CDs at
install time, but we also want to be able to do specialized composes of
Fedora that are comprised of packages both in Core and Extras, so that
somebody could spin the Fedora KDE Edition that has no gnome, just KDE (:
I might be a small man, but the "somebody" part makes me a bit nervous.
At least during the transition phase (FC7-release), I rather see some
hand-holding by -core people to prevent broken ISO's from making KDE
unusable.
> Q2: What will happen if the KDE extra maintainers leave the project.
> Will it be orphaned or will be maintained by FC/RHAT personal?
I'm fairly confident that there is enough community interest in KDE that
someone or someones will take over.
Community interest != maintainers != DE capable maintainers.
KDE is not just a small package - it's a huge complex entity that can
batman cry like a 2 y/o baby with a stinky diaper. (.... Baah! building
kdebinding RPMs on x86_64 is a good example)
- Gilboa