Le 28/09/2010 20:54, Michael Scherer a écrit :
Le mardi 28 septembre 2010 à 20:34 +0200, Thomas Lottmann a écrit :
As you have just brought up Smart here, I did remember about it and
though about this.
Some time ago, there was an employees from MandrakeSoft who was working
on Smart and developping it just like RPMDrake has been developped up to
now. Yet, back to the previous cost cutting plans the company already
did, it was decided to only keep RPMDrake as main package manager and
the employee working on Smart was fired, even though Smart was very
popular at that time.
No.
The guy you speak about is Gustavo Niemeyer, and he was not fired, he
left for Canonical after being approached during Europython in 2006. He
didn't worked long for Mandriva.
Okay, so my brain badly registered the explanations I got from that
story. All my excuses...
/me thinks of updating his brain's hardware conf to avoid this kind of
stuff...
There was some discussions of using smart on Ubuntu too, but Gustavo was
assigned to work on landscape and storm
( http://jamwow.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/my-work-at-canonical/ ).
Someone from Canonical told me the orm ( ie storm ) was written for
landscape and later launchpad was ported on it after storm was published
as "launchpad orm" ( but they couldn't speak of Landscape at that
time ).
Now, he is working on openstack, afaik.
And well, while smart was new and shiny with original features, I think
"being popular" is a overstatement. Smart gui is clearly inspired by
synaptics, and is a little bit too powerful and complex ( and a little
bit buggy, I fill 4 bugs in 15 minutes of test :/ in that time ).
Thank you for retelling the sotry properly, I was not yet on Linux at
that time. But I am still quite sure Smart was appreciated for a few
points, not remembering them...
As the GUI tool is bugged and, on my computer, apparently unusable, is
it worth fixing it, maintain it, and eventually improve it? I mean,
there may be a potential in such a powerful tool.
Nothing urgent in that though, just thinking about it since there was
this conversation.
