I am working on KDE 3.2. I have almost completed the review of kdelibs and will continue with kdebase. How far I will go, I am not sure. But in general ArashB is correct. There has been very little contribution.
Greetings, Arash On Tuesday 13 January 2004 13:45, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Monday 12 January 2004 08:35, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote: > > I am telling this is a KDE bug. It is not happening in gedit under > > X4.3 and it is happening in KDE under X4.2.1; > > Umm, sorry I have a debian partition here, with KDE 3.1.4 and X 4.2, and > this bug is not there. > > > I have told this > > several times but you keep saying that it is a X bug. > > Because I keep beleiving that it's a X bug. > > > I went through > > 6 chapter of unicode to find the last one out I took me 48 hours and > > was a real torture! I am working on a bug before reporting it or > > saying something! > > > > I dont' care about this kiddy, what is really anoying is that nobody > > moving his finger, All of linuxiran guys keep talking and talking and > > talking! no move no translation no progress! > > Example? You should have one a great deal of translation till now but > > you did nothing! Why? Instead of watching the lord of the ring or > > compiling kernel translating two string of KDE would be more useful > > but less fun I should agree! > > Why should I lie? Last year as you know I was free for nearly 6 months, > so I did a great deal of translation. Right now, I have a completely > different situation. I don't have internet access in home, I don't have > access to CVS (that little application of yours isn't able to check out > the files) and I also can't properly type Farsi in Kbabel. These all > have contributed to my lack of participation in FarsiKDE. > > And most important of all, it's about time. You have a working day-job > which has enabled you to pay the bills, as well as contribute to open > source. I don't. I am a student, with a limited financial budget, > taking 6 courses every semester and trying to get an A in all of them, > just because I need to get that scholarship. While I love FarsiKDE, It > should be noted that I feel under no obligation to contribute to > FarsiKDE. > > Still, I actualy planned on participating more on the translation side > specially when I am in Iran. I don't have CVS, so I couldn't see how > many commits and translations were done. But untill this email of > yours, I had no knowlegde that "There is NO TRANSLATION, NO PROGRESS". > > > With the great knowledge of C++ that ArashP have he can fix this bug > > of KDE, but he preefr to write a memory allocation sample! I really > > could not understand it! > > How rude of you to think people have an obligation to participate. As a > friendly note Arash, I advice you to reconsider this behaviour. You > won't be a good Open Source manager like this. > > I think it has been an honour for us to have Arash P here with us. He > has adviced us on many issues, and instead of insluting hime (although > I have done that my self in the past) I look forward to learn from his > experience. I have always found myself lucky to have had the > opportunity to know this person. > > I look at Arash P, like the members of the fellowship look at Gandalf. > He doesn't get involve in every little subject, but he is a great > observer, and he sees the big picture, and from time to time, he gives > you a little hint to set you on the right direction. > > Arash Bijanzadeh, my dear fellow friend, Open Source is about volountary > cooperation. It doesn't work in a hostile environment that you are now > trying to make. > > > Nobody else is working but platoali and he got to give up soon "ye > > dast seda nadare" you know. > > I am sorry to hear that he is alone. I thought a couple of enthusiastic > individuals were involved. > > > The bad news is that we missed kate bidi support in KDE3.2 too! There > > was no feedback and interest in it and it could not be merged in the > > head for 3.2 :-( > > > :-| > > Cheer up Pal. > > > On Sunday 11 January 2004 15:09, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > > On Saturday 10 January 2004 11:54, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote: > > > > I am afraid he is right on this one. > > > > So please ignore it, and for gods sake vote http://bugs.kde.org/ > > > > show_bug.cgi?id=70986 and make this bug active, > > > > > > Arash, > > > > > > I know that it might not be related to xkb, and frankly I don't > > > know what xfree86 component it is related to. But it is quite > > > common for a bug reporter, not to know what specific component of a > > > product the bug is related to. It is usually the task of Bugzilla > > > maintainer to reassign the bug to the related component, not for a > > > stranger to close it, saying that it is not related to 'foo' > > > component. > > > > > > And while I have voted (20 points) for your bug on KDE, I have to > > > agree with Arash Z in that I think it is a Xfree86 bug. The reason? > > > KDE 3.1 using XFree 4.2 doesn't show this vertical line. It is IMHO > > > a bug introduced in Xfree86 4.3 > > > > > > > we are gonna loose > > > > the proper farsi support because of this bug. Don't let'em to > > > > laugh at us! > > > > > > Well, we have lost proper farsi support due to this bug, and I am > > > not exaggerating when I say that this bug is the sole reason that > > > has prohibited me from using KBabel, and translating KDE. > > > > > > And well, they are already laughing at us. Have you looked at > > > Roozbeh P's weblog recently? he makes great fun of us, whenever he > > > finds a spelling error in one of our bug reports. > > > > > > We two groups, haven't had a smooth relationship in the past, but > > > still I assume that we do have some common goals, and while I don't > > > expect them to help us in our problems, I at least expect them not > > > to trow stones in our way. > > > > > > Or maybe that's a wrong assumption. > > > > > > But seriously, Arash, I think we should investigate this bug more > > > thourouly, and determine really wether it is a KDE bug, or a > > > XFree86 one. This bug is really serious. > > > > > > Cheers -- The FarsiKDE Project www.farsikde.org _______________________________________________ bna-linuxiran mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bna-linuxiran
