On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de> wrote: >> Testing and QA are important parts of creating a product. They most >> certainly are part of the "development process". Providing a Windows >> version of Krita does force me to install these tools if I wish to >> contribute to that part of Krita. > > Vishesh, please: If you *wish* to contribute to that part of Krita, how can > you be *forced* to use Windows? > > If you are not interesting in the Windows version, you just ignore it. >
Lets use the analogy of KRita and Windows Binaries being one part of it. Your statement implies that if I'm not interested in Windows, I can ignore that part of Krita. (Even though statistically Windows has a greater market share than Linux + OSX combined) Similarly, ProjectX in one part of KDE. If you're not interested in contributing to a project which also supports a proprietary platform (but does not recommend it), then you can ignore it. > I see only one kind of pressure that comes from a Windows version of Krita and > that is some pressure to provide for portability. From a development point of > view I see this as an advantage. It can even prevent platform lock-in. > > Well okay, I know get your argument: If a user reports a bug on Windows, one > can feel pressured to do something about it. Similar like with an issue > provided on github.com. That said, I likely won´t feel pressured. Cause if > there is a Windows team for Krita, I expect this team to handle Windows > specific bug reports and likely would ignore them otherwise. > And the maintainer of ProjectX would be part of this *github* team and you can expect them to handle those specific bug reports / pull requests. For Baloo, I've explicitly disabled it for Windows and OSX. I have the ability to chose my platforms as a KDE project. Similarly, the argument can be made that Github can be just another platform which projects can choose to be part of. > But still… there is *some* comparability. Yet, I still providing a Windows > version of Krita is not the same as (partly) allowing pull requests on > Github.com. I do not have words for it at the moment, but I feel lot more > reluctance about the latter than the former. -- Vishesh Handa _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community