On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Irek Szczesniak wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:37 AM, David Cantrell > <david.l.cantr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Lionel Cons >> <lionelcons1...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> On 18 August 2012 14:23, Irek Szczesniak <iszczesn...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Joshuah Hurst <joshhu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Jon Trulson <j...@radscan.com> wrote: >>>> I'd welcome the plan, but I have doubts that Redhat has much interest [...]
> Yeah, based on that I think we can give up with CDE. I do not see any > hope that a production-ready CDE RPM will appear in the next 4-5 years > because it sounds like Redhat will do 'QA by end user' instead of 'QA > by qualified personel'. > What does Redhat have to do with this? > Fact is: > - OpenCDE entered a quick quality downwards spiral Wrong project, OpenCDE is here: www.opencde.org Whereas, this project is The Open Group's CDE, located here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/ And as for quality, what are you talking about? > - No planning or organisation is done Ok... > - There is no testing done, and even heavyweights like Redhat are not > willing to invest. They'll refer to 'testing by community', which is > as worse as 'released to community [and then let the project die]' We would welcome someone getting the test kit up and running. Are you volunteering? It is also released under the LGPL. Why should Redhat invest any effort on this? Why don't you? > - There is no one from the 'old folks' around who developed or > maintained CDE and can help or object changes > I'm an old folk... I maintained and ported it. What did you do? > <sarcasm>The bitter truth is that his has become common within the IT blah blah blah. Why don't you fund an effort? The source is out there... What's holding you up? > > Irek > -- Jon Trulson "If the Martian rope-a-dope don't get him, he'll get himself, he'll come in too fast and punch himself out." - one of my brothers, referring to the Curiosity landing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
