tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996035476649681224.post1188260421502933551..comments2023-10-24T08:14:26.802-07:00Comments on Robert Knight's Blog: FOSSCampAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18355855797731147055noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996035476649681224.post-83073088036818421622007-10-30T01:33:00.000-07:002007-10-30T01:33:00.000-07:00Thanks Robert for the report and thanks to you guy...Thanks Robert for the report and thanks to you guys for representing KDE-Edu. The Potato cigar is such a good example of needed feedback from distributions to developers! I'll make sure to try to enforce cooperation.annmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09506477974789559455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996035476649681224.post-6737361572231853412007-10-29T20:56:00.000-07:002007-10-29T20:56:00.000-07:00"Unfortunately both upstream and downstream have t..."Unfortunately both upstream and downstream have the same problem in that they have a large number of suppliers and consumers respectively which all have different systems for managing and accepting patches."<BR/><BR/>this really is the issue isn't it? a lingua franca is badly needed.<BR/><BR/>"Something which Ubuntu can do in the short term is automated emails to upstream maintainers about patches which are added."<BR/><BR/>i want rss feeds and something that i globally searchable using, e.g. google. perhaps check out:<BR/><BR/>http://haberdasherhq.org/demo/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06688610708513558784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2996035476649681224.post-28292462646146258722007-10-29T20:55:00.000-07:002007-10-29T20:55:00.000-07:00"e-engineering applications to sync with online se..."e-engineering applications to sync with online services and make use of data from them out of the box with minimal effort on the part of the user."<BR/><BR/>this is the one bit of the g.o.d. that i actually think is useful. to how many people is another question, but probably more than all the other features put together.<BR/><BR/>it is, however, at the end of the day little more than hosted svn with a web front end. i do hope that at some point in the future we see free alternatives to these online services, or that they themselves become libre.<BR/><BR/>"facilities to sign into various online services without having to go to their website"<BR/><BR/>the approach taken is trivial ... and boring technologically. every "social networking" site these days is doing this.<BR/><BR/>openID is far more interesting in the long term.<BR/><BR/>"if Plasma was working as it should be"<BR/><BR/>s,should,will,g<BR/><BR/>"cohesive design from the end user's perspective such that the various parts fit together out of the box in a way which is useful."<BR/><BR/>"hardwired" can give the illusion of "more useful out of the box" until someone steps in a puts together a set of components from the more flexible solution.<BR/><BR/>i completely challenge the idea that big board, which i have used and studied, will have any real benefits over what is possible with a plasma type solution. it's just one more purpose-built app.<BR/><BR/>it's not like you could build amarok out of it, right? or put the other way, it'd be much easier to write big board with plasma.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06688610708513558784noreply@blogger.com