Re: The Community

Paul Eggleton wrote:

> Moving forward, clearly something based around Qt 4 makes the most sense, but
> that means an almost complete rewrite of lots of important functionality,
> which is why I have been hesitant to go in that direction myself just yet
> (although I know others already have). Of course I recognise that the time
> will come when we have to put all of our efforts into a new branch.

The problem with "porting" opie to use qt4, is that is is not a trivial
thing to do. .ui cannot be converted, and quite a lot of work has to be
done in code. The changes between qt/e2 and qt/e4 are quite extensive. I
saw what Trolltech went through first hand porting and the pain
suffered. It took many developers many months to do so. It was not pretty.

I think the consensus among opie developers at that time was that we did
not have enough developers nor enough interest in doing this work. and
waited for Trolltech to release qtopia 4 under GPL. and after many
months, TT finally did so. By that time, many had lost interest and had
moved on.

Which is why opieII was started as a new branch from qtopia4, and not
"ported" from qt/e2.

>
> Getting back to the question of community - looking over the responses to
> Benjamin's question, I see that there are a few people I would have expected
> to respond who haven't. Please, don't hold back - if you want to be
> considered part of the Opie community, then speak up now.

I know that sandman, tronical, and Ben Meyer all work for Trolltech now.
Mickey joined the dark side and started developing openmoko.

zecke is around still, but not into opie anymore.
A few others are still developing KDE.

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Lorn 'ljp' Potter
Software Engineer, Systems Group, MES, Trolltech
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