Re: [trinity-devel] LiMux draft

Calvin Morrison wrote: 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