19th December 2003 by Derek Kite

This Week...

KImageMapEditor, an HTML image map editor is now part of Quanta. KConfedit now supports editing remote KDE configurations over a network. KChart gets update from KD Chart. Kapture, an APT frontend for KDE and KDebconf, a Debian configuration front-end, were imported into the repository.
The big fuss this week was the exclusion of QT, and and by extension, KDE from UserLinux. The main reason being that QT is licenced under the GPL, with the option of a closed source license for proprietary development. So with a stroke, about half of the desktop developers are excluded from an initiative that among other things targets the enterprise desktop. I believe that this shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the economics of free and open source software. What is the scarce resource? Is it customers and users? I don't think so. The value proposition in FOSS is so good, customers will come. The scarce resources are developers. One wonders at the wisdom of pissing off half of your most valuable resource.

Paradoxically, this situation will incite many to code. Peter Rockai committed two Debian focused projects, both of which have goals of simplifying the configuration of KDE for Debian users. One is a DebConf front end, the other an Apt front end. Zack Rusin extended KConfEdit, adding the capability of configuring KDE over the network. No, neither KDE or Gnome are going away soon.
One year ago the 3.1 release was postponed till January for security fixes. Konstruct appeared, quickly becoming indispensable, and the KWin rewrite was started.

Statistics

Commits 1499 by 177 developers, 151382 lines modified, 1726 new files
Open Bugs 4917
Open Wishes 5120
Bugs Opened 547 in the last 7 days
Bugs Closed 360 in the last 7 days

Commit Summary

Module Commits
kde-i18n
542
 
kdenonbeta
114
 
kdeextragear-2
90
 
koffice
85
 
www
83
 
kdepim
77
 
kdelibs
75
 
kdebase
73
 
kdeextragear-1
48
 
kdebindings
41
 
Lines Developer Commits
11786
 
Toplica Tanasković
84
 
3462
 
Erik Kj
65
 
1067
 
Daniele Medri
57
 
1469
 
Stephan Johach
41
 
152
 
Dirk Mueller
38
 
1320
 
Ian Reinhart Geiser
31
 
335
 
Nicolas Goutte
31
 
5901
 
Sebastian Trueg
31
 
275
 
Waldo Bastian
30
 
130
 
Fabrice Mous
29
 

Internationalization (i18n) Status

Language Percentage Complete
Danish (da)
100%
 
Swedish (sv)
99.95%
 
British English (en_GB)
98.47%
 
Portuguese (pt)
97.74%
 
Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
96.14%
 
Spanish (es)
95.7%
 
Italian (it)
94.24%
 
German (de)
93.84%
 
Serbian (sr)
93.51%
 
Hungarian (hu)
92.36%
 

Bug Killers

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