Hi all, Before I chime in: 'developer' is the term commonly used for 'programmers' - at least in the IT world. Other professions have other meanings for the word like in civil engineering). And, even if we start using the word to mean something else, nobody else will.
The account is for that reason named 'kde contributor account' and not a 'kde developer account' [1]. The words 'developer' and 'contributor' should be synonymous, but they are not used as such by the rest of the world. So, it is not surprising that you got the answer that only Uri is a devel. As for the issue in question, I think that the best sentence that explains the problem is David's: > *something* will always be disliked - if you focus on the part someone > dislikes. If you submit 10 changes and get 9 in, great! If you submit > 10 and then go all or nothing, you'll get arguments. The problem with big changes/patches (be it code or art) compared to the smaller ones (especially if the work is not communicated enough): - is that they require a lot of work - there are more places that might warrant a discussion Then you get a combined 'I spent a lot of time on this' with 'there were so many complaints' and you get disheartened (with x^2 growth :) ). We all had it at some point in time, and learnt to do things more transparently and in smaller steps (well, I haven't, but I'm a masochist and like being slapped :) ). There are people with different opinions. The project maintainer always has the last word. And has the most difficult job of having to say 'no' sometimes. > treated by the Plasma devels as children. After reading the bug report and the rev request, I'm surprised at this statement. The fact that something gets rejected with a detailed explanation (and even with offers to help) does not look to me like talking down to someone. > designers don't have devel accounts yet, please can we get that done? Agreed. All VDG members should go to [1] and follow the procedure. I guess that page needs updating to mention artist explicitly. Cheers, Ivan [1] https://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Get_a_Contributor_Account -- KDE, ivan.cu...@kde.org, http://cukic.co/ gpg key id: 850B6F76 _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel