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Re: [trinity-devel] My opinion on Trinity project quality

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:49:33 -0500
> I watch over Trinity project for as long as 3 years. I want to give my
> grade on its development activity. I think that the project is not
> capable of public use and rather suited for small group of inside
> hackers.
>
> Along the history of development there were too much lame
> unprofessional decisions. It was fulfilling some strange unpractical
> ideas. In fact, it came to a logical unsuccessful end.

While in hindsight some of the project's goals were a bit too ambitious,
this has been true at some point for many open-source projects over the
years.  A better measure of success is whether or not the project is still
alive and moving forward, along with an active and engaged userbase.  At
this time I think we can answer both questions with "Yes!".

> If you install 3.5.13 you will get too much trouble. I think, that
> implementing all the missing features into KDE4 is less cost, than
> waiting when this woe project will get to a decent condition.

I encourage you to hack on the KDE SC 5 sources to fix the issues you have
experienced, and then work on getting the resultant patches into KDE SC 5
so that all may benefit from them.  AFAIK the KDE 4 series has
transitioned into maintenance mode at this time, so it is highly unlikely
that you will get anything UI-changing accepted into the KDE 4 series
branches.

Just my $0.02. :-)

Tim