On 14 August 2012 07:25, Julius Schwartzenberg <julius.schwartzenberg@...> wrote: > Calvin Morrison wrote: >> I've started to draft up a LiMux email. I haven't finished, but some >> input would be good >> >> http://trinity.etherpad.trinitydesktop.org/52 > > Some things are still missing I think. > > First of all, what is the exact goal this letter is trying to achieve? > Do you expect LiMux people to make significant improvements to TDE > directly through GIT or send in patches or does it also have to do with > financial contributions? Or maybe you just expect them to report bugs? > There are some notes in there, but I think "joining efforts" should be > avoided because it is too vague. > > At this point it is completely unclear I guess what LiMux could actually > offer to the Trinity project. So I can imagine a first e-mail should try > to find out how much focus there is on Trinity and what kind of > resources they are spending now on it. > Right now, as far as I understand, there haven't been any (few) bug > reports from people associated with LiMux. Is this really correct? > > What I do think is very good in your letter is that it shows what the > Trinity project can mean for LiMux: "resolve LiMux specific issues, > respond to problems, as well as offer debugging and packaging help". I > think the emphasis of the letter should be on that together with why > such feedback is also very important for the Trinity project. > > A list of features for the next release seems good, but I think it is > too technical now and also some things are really not interesting for > end-users. What does an X11 compositor give them? Doesn't LibreOffice > already have dialog boxes? Why would they care how the software is > branded exactly? I would advice to try to rewrite this list into > something more marketable. I suspect their main priority right now is to > be able to migrate off Ubuntu 10.04 in time to a next LTS release of > Ubuntu, so I think Trinity's stance on that would be the most important. > > I hope this feedback is useful. Good luck! It will be interesting to see > the result. > > Best regards, > Julius > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help@... > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > Thank you, your notes are very helpful. Cal