> 1) Who you are, what you do in real life, how you got involved in Debian, > and involved in KDE, what (if anything) you packaged in Debian before this, > what (if anything) you did in KDE before this, why & how you came to the > decision to take on maintainership of the KDE packages.
I'm just finishing a PhD and starting a postdoc in computational topology in Melbourne, Australia. I'm originally from Brisbane, Australia and just finished a couple of years studying in Oklahoma, USA. I got involved in debian because I thought it was cool and I wanted to contribute, which I guess is a fairly common story. I package a handful of official KDE modules plus koffice and a number of miscellaneous KDE apps. I also package some mathematical software and a bit of java stuff including jython. I don't actually write KDE software, I just package it. Some of the KDE packages I started maintaining because I wanted to see them in debian and some (like koffice) I started maintaining because they had been left orphaned for quite some time and I wanted to see them kept up to date. > B) What's up w/ KOffice for Debian? Re: Woody or Sid? As for sid, if you take a look at the changelog you will find that koffice has been frequently updated, with the one exception of the two week conference I was on during the libpng debacle. And despite complaint after complaint that I received during that period, the world doesn't end with a two week wait. Honestly. So the sid version of koffice is almost always fairly up to date. As for woody, the koffice in woody is very old (June/July 2001). The reason for this is the frequent updates and the fact that koffice is very large and thus takes some time to be built for all architectures, by which time there's often been another upload and so on and so on. At the moment all that's keeping koffice out of woody is an arm rebuild and two more days' wait, and unless some major bug is discovered I'm not going to do another upload until 1.1.1 has progressed into woody. So cross your fingers and koffice for woody might be up to date in the order of days. > C) What's your recommendation regarding: would you advise people who want > to be making productive use of KDE now to run Woody or Sid? I'd absolutely advise using all of the sid KDE packages, even if you're on a woody system - this is just based on watching bug reports come in from people using straight woody or using some woody KDE packages with some sid KDE packages. But then again, I'm not sure how many other sid packages will be dragged in by asking for sid's KDE. This advice should also be taken with a grain of salt because I haven't tested woody at all myself. Ben. -- Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://baasil.humbug.org.au/bab/ Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am not like the Leader of the Opposition. I did not slither out of the Cabinet room like a mangy maggot... - Paul Keating, on John Howard
