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<B>Thomas Lottmann</B>
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<I>Tue Sep 28 22:20:53 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>Le 28/09/2010 20:54, Michael Scherer a écrit :
><i> Le mardi 28 septembre 2010 à 20:34 +0200, Thomas Lottmann a écrit :
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> As you have just brought up Smart here, I did remember about it and
</I>>><i> though about this.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Some time ago, there was an employees from MandrakeSoft who was working
</I>>><i> on Smart and developping it just like RPMDrake has been developped up to
</I>>><i> now. Yet, back to the previous cost cutting plans the company already
</I>>><i> did, it was decided to only keep RPMDrake as main package manager and
</I>>><i> the employee working on Smart was fired, even though Smart was very
</I>>><i> popular at that time.
</I>>><i>
</I>><i> No.
</I>><i> The guy you speak about is Gustavo Niemeyer, and he was not fired, he
</I>><i> left for Canonical after being approached during Europython in 2006. He
</I>><i> didn't worked long for Mandriva.
</I>><i>
</I>
Okay, so my brain badly registered the explanations I got from that
story. All my excuses...
/me thinks of updating his brain's hardware conf to avoid this kind of
stuff...
><i> There was some discussions of using smart on Ubuntu too, but Gustavo was
</I>><i> assigned to work on landscape and storm
</I>><i> ( <A HREF="http://jamwow.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/my-work-at-canonical/">http://jamwow.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/my-work-at-canonical/</A> ).
</I>><i> Someone from Canonical told me the orm ( ie storm ) was written for
</I>><i> landscape and later launchpad was ported on it after storm was published
</I>><i> as "launchpad orm" ( but they couldn't speak of Landscape at that
</I>><i> time ).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Now, he is working on openstack, afaik.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> And well, while smart was new and shiny with original features, I think
</I>><i> "being popular" is a overstatement. Smart gui is clearly inspired by
</I>><i> synaptics, and is a little bit too powerful and complex ( and a little
</I>><i> bit buggy, I fill 4 bugs in 15 minutes of test :/ in that time ).
</I>><i>
</I>
Thank you for retelling the sotry properly, I was not yet on Linux at
that time. But I am still quite sure Smart was appreciated for a few
points, not remembering them...
As the GUI tool is bugged and, on my computer, apparently unusable, is
it worth fixing it, maintain it, and eventually improve it? I mean,
there may be a potential in such a powerful tool.
Nothing urgent in that though, just thinking about it since there was
this conversation.
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