On Mon May 10 2010 05:04:52 Michael Thaler wrote: > In 2009 KDE was around 4.7 Million lines of code [1] and had about 450 > contributors [2]. KDE 3.5 had less lines of code and less developers, but > the numbers are the same order of magnitude. Even if you find some people > that are willing to maintain and improve KDE 3.5, how do you want to > maintain and improve some of million lines of code which were developed by > hundreds of people? And you have to maintain Qt3 as well. That is just > totally unrealistic.
It may well take 450 people to turn KDE 3.5 into KDE 4. It takes far fewer to maintain a pre-existing, excellent, stable code base. > I don't think it is appropriate to spam the list with your request about > keeping KDE 3.5 in Debian Squeeze, even though the Debian KDE team decided > to not do that. There are lots of people who like KDE 4 and are happy that > the Debian KDE team does a really good job providing KDE 4 for Debian. I > understand thst you do not like KDE 4. People told you what your options > are and keeping KDE 3.5 is, for several reasons already stated, not one of > them. So please do accept that stop spamming the list with your "Rescue KDE > 3.5" requests. Please don't interfere with discussions about rescuing KDE 3.5. We're not trying to stop you from running KDE 4. Please don't interfere with our work. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201005101140.11764.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net
