[Mageia-dev] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github

Sun Oct 3 15:35:55 CEST 2010

On 3 October 2010 09:58, Fabrice Facorat <fabrice.facorat at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 2010/10/2 Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>:
+>> On 2 October 2010 21:50, Fabrice Facorat <fabrice.facorat at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>> Le 2 octobre 2010 17:52, Nicolas Lécureuil <neoclust.mageia at gmail.com> a écrit :
+>>>>
+>>>>
+>>>> 2010/10/2 Fabrice Facorat <fabrice.facorat at gmail.com>
+>>>>>
+>>>>> 2010/10/1 Sinner from the Prairy <sinnerbofh at gmail.com>:
+>>>>> > Fabrice Facorat wrote:
+>>>
+>>>>> > Mandriva tries that, with look'n'feel consistent on MCC, KDE and Gnome.
+>>>>> > draketools work on TUI or GUI. They work well.
+>>>>>
+>>>>> some tools does not work correctly however and are buggy
+>>>>>
+>>>>
+>>>> Better  is to fix them instead of rewrite all.
+>>>
+>>> you know, when something have been broken for more than 2 years ... at
+>>> some point you may think that the best would be to just change it ;-)
+>>>
+>>>
+>>>
+>>> --
+>>> Close the World, Open the Net
+>>> http://www.linux-wizard.net
+>>>
+>>
+>> Specifying what exactly is wrong is an essential issue here:
+>> - Just "perl is hard to understand" isn't a problem for users, users
+>> don't code it.
+>
+> but for dev and potential contributor this increase the antry barrier
+> for contribution
+>
+>> - Not being used by other distros is again not a problem, each distro
+>> has native tools that no other distros use (as misc said a couple of
+>> emails up)
+>
+> sure. But do Mandriva still have enough man power to maintain so many tools ?
+>
+
+(Who's talking about Mandriva?)
+
+About man power, if a distro doesn't have enough man power to maintain
+so many tool, do you think it'll have enough man power to port them to
+another language so that others can contribute / "lower the entry
+barrier"? or even integrate other tools in the distro?
+
+>> So, no, I wouldn't throw my old box out the window because if it works
+>> even if it's slow, until I buy a new box / can afford a new box.
+>> drakxtools work, until a viable alternative, if needed at all, is
+>> provided they should be kept.
+>
+> I do say that we should do a complete analysis of all the mandriva
+> tools ( drakxtools, drakwizard, ... ), and have the decision on a
+> per-tool basis
+>
+> --
+> Close the World, Open the Net
+> http://www.linux-wizard.net
+>
+
+Sure. (Do you proposed to participate in that evaluation?).
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+