On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 04:28:52PM +0100, Chusslove Illich wrote: > It occured to me that I could examine usage-over-time statistics, since KDE > 4.0. Here is the percentage of strings in core (SC) modules containing KUIT > markup, [...] > > 2012-01-01 0.60% > i would find this number way more helpful if it gave the percentage of strings with markup only amongst strings which have placeholders, as that is by far the most interesting target group.
> I have a small hope that in the future we could actually push the full > system as proposed :) > i wouldn't set the hopes too high. while the system is certainly well thought out, it isn't such a spectacular improvement (as far as the average dev is concerned) that you'd have much of a chance to stand against the momentum of the solutions the various communities have. it's way more likely that you gain traction when you optimize for minimal migration pain in a community which is actually in search of a solution. the next qt contributor summit is in only two months. how about another trip to berlin? ;) p.s.: i still have your epic mails in my inbox, and they perfectly serve the purpose of giving me a bad conscience about still not having answered them properly. let alone your paper. :}