On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Christoph Thiel wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Aschwin Marsman wrote:

Christoph, thanks for your replies.

> > > Please, don't try to act naive! YaST isn't bound to KDE or GNOME - why 
> > > should we reinvent the wheel?
> >
> > Because YaST is currently based on Qt, it wouldn't feel native in GNOME.
> 
> YaST has a QT and an Ncurses frontend. It's just a matter of writing a GTK 
> frontend - but apparent nobody has done this so far. There are other fish 
> to fry...

This is was what I said in the email: if the backend is correctly implemented,
everybody can implement a frontend the way they like:
- GNOME based
- web based
- a toolkit idependent library, so you can choose which actual toolkit you
  want to use: Qt, GTK, ...
- ...

> > > > As a usability example: I would like to have the ability to make 
> > > > some improvements (in my opinion) to e.g. you: When downloading the 
> > > > patches and everything went will I don't want to press the Finish 
> > > > button myself, I would like a checkbox that gives me the option to 
> > > > specify the behaviour I described above. When will development be 
> > > > open for these kind of issues, and who will decide if a proposed 
> > > > patch will be included or not?
> > > 
> > > The development is already open - just use Bugzilla to interact with 
> > > the YaST developers on this. But please note, that there will be quite 
> > > some redevelopment on the YaST2 Packagemanager + YOU for 10.1...

Where can I read what the current plans are for YaST2? I can only spent my
time once like everybody else, is it discussed on the opensuse-edge mailing
list? Where can I find it on the opensuse.org website?

> > That depends on your definition of open: using Bugzilla to report a bug 
> > or issue a feature request is usefull, but open development to me would 
> > be that I can take the source, make a patch which does what I would like 
> > and sent that to a mailing list for discussion/review. Do we have that 
> > kind of openess already? Is it supposed to be like that in the (near) 
> > future?
> 
> We had that kind of openness from day 0 - just go ahead, file a bugreport, 
> attach a patch and discuss it with the developers. But be aware of the 
> fact that we might not accept your patch - which has nothing todo with 
> openness, but with the fact that the responsible developer / project 
> manager will have the final say.

This means Novell employees are the responsible developer / project manager?
Are can somebody from the opensuse community be also responsible for certain
packages? E.g. vim 6.4 is released this weekend and I would like a rpm for this:
will it be available in the SUSE or other available YaST repositories or should
I create my own?

> Regards
>       Christoph
 
Best regards,
 
Aschwin Marsman
 
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