On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 08:09 +0200, Dario Freddi wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm writing this mail after some promises from David, after waiting months > without a reply but just 2-3 lines in irc by chasing David from my last mail, > and after seeing that from 11th of May the activity on the Git repo has begun > again, and still nobody got in touch with me. > > I will try to be very direct: I'm tired of the state of things. I'm tired of > seeing that you people define yourself as a "standard", but in the end you > fail in: > > - providing a stable API > - providing even the smallest information about development and API changes > - supporting anything that is not GNOME, and not giving a bit of help in > people who actually are trying to push your standard. > > Let me remind you that a standard is a standard once many projects and many > distributions embrace it. At the current state of things, I can surely say > that there is no interest for me and for KDE to support polkit 1.0 (and I > fought through hell to make polkit 0.9 accepted in, as many people were > concerned about the approach and all the deprecated -grant and -dbus > libraries), unless you start showing some interest. > > If you want to keep working the way you are doing it now, you will actually > end up in having what you started in the first place: a standard for the > GNOME > desktop. maybe that's what you wanted, but if that's the case, I would > appreciate if you could move from fd.o to gnome git. > > I'm sorry if I seemed rude; but I think it's even more rude ignoring people > that are actually supporting your cause. I sincerely hope I'll get a reply > and > possibly a follow-up discussion on this.
Hey Dario, I think that one thing you fail to understand here is that - There's not a lot of people working on software for the free desktop - Things like authorization and security aint exactly sexy topics - People working on some project usually also work on a bunch of other projects and that's why things are moving slowly. Personally I'm, like a lot of other contributors in free software, am stretched thin and work on more than a handful of projects at the same time. And that's why there hasn't been any updates nor time to write mails to a mailing list reiterating the direction of the project or what I'm doing with a particular feature and why. I mean, there's already http://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit/log/ If this was the only project I was working on, things would probably look different but it's not so this is moot. Btw, I resent the notion that PolicyKit is a GNOME-specific project. In fact, with what will become version 1.0, the only two GNOME specific bits are 1) an authentication agent (which is already in PolicyKit-gnome in GNOME git); and 2) A simple editor for authorizations managed by the local authority backend. And you can reimplement these all you want. If I wanted to make this GNOME specific, I wouldn't have bothered with designing the whole thing in a way so people can reimplement the UI bits with another toolkit. But, yes, I should have replied to your mail earlier but I was also pondering what to reply. I mean, your mail was not very specific. I'll reply right away anyway. David _______________________________________________ polkit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/polkit-devel
