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[Seif Lotfy <seif@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually I see point 5 and 6 very big points also there KDE is thinking of
integrating us.Here is the deal. Do we want to be in KDE or not! same
question goes to the Docky and Teamgeist! . Most of them want to integrate
us in around 6 weeks from today! This is not enough time.
So basically if we pass this move then we can be considered a big project.
If we meet them halfway by kind of adapting to their plans it would get us
good reputation (mostly we need that since my reputation as a person is kind
of bad :/ ) and we need to get the zeitgeist reputation away from my
personal one. So better act quickly before it is too late.


2009/10/9 markus korn <thekorn@xxxxxx>

> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Seif Lotfy <seif@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hey guys here my quick take on why we are under time pressure:
> > 1) We need to show GNOME that we have been coming forward and not
> standing
> > still after the 0.2.1 release
> > 2) We need to get 0.3 rolling quickly since alot of projects are starting
> to
> > depend on the API of 0.2 and incase we want to break it should happen
> now!
> > 3) Keep up the momentum
> > 4) We can take a big break afterwards :P
> > 5) Teamgeist and Docky want to fully depend on Zeitgeist thus we should
> meet
> > them halfway (You might think why care if they want us they should stay
> with
> > out momentum, but this is a wrong approach, especially if teamgeist is
> > being developed by Collabora which will guarantee us alot of success if
> we
> > make it (if we don't they have the manpower to rework zeitgeist from
> scratch
> > making us redundant. Plus Docky is one of the most used apps on GNOME
> which
> > will give us a prestige, they don't need us but we have the honor of them
> > wanting to depend on us)
> > 6) tackle open issues and narrow down problems for the hackfest
> > Tell me if u dont like my points but they do put us or at least me under
> the
> > impression of time pressure.
> > Cheers
> > Seif
>
> As always, I'm seeing things a bit different ;)
> But first of all, you are our contact to GNOME, so if you think we are
> not making enough progress to justify their investment into our
> Hackfest we should push harder.
> But I think we have done alot of things after our 0.2.1 release, maybe
> we have not produced alot of code, but we had alot of discussion ad
> ended up writing a lot of things down. This all is also progress which
> can be shown to GNOME as an indicator of progress.
> IMO we should use the hackfest to discuss all this open questions in
> detail in bozen, and we should try to release 0.3 with all the API, DB
> whatever related changes a week after the hackfest, and present this
> 0.3 release as a result of our work there.
>
> Your point 4-6 are no arguments for beeing under time pressure.
>
>