Kalyxo is back to life!
We had a great meeting at yesterday evening. The purpose was to start kde 3.2 to woody backporting initiative. We wanted to base our work off amu’s (Andreas Mueller’s) backports. Ervin was rather hot into this, as he was seeking to employ his friend Aiua in the project. There were also Qerub (Christoffer Sawicki) and suy (Alejandro Exojo), the latter unexpectedly ;). Ervin proposed what would need to be done, i had a build machine available, it just needed an appropriate setup. However, it turned out that Aiua would be the only person working on it. Ervin forbidden me to work on it, apart from setting up things. So with ervin, we discussed what to do next.
We decided to ditch the backporting stuff altogether. Kalyxo has too little manpower to do stuff like this. It just a grungework, it is of rather ephemeral effect and i can’t see many prospective users myself. But the question arose what is priority to Kalyxo. I think it’s coding effort and real KDE and Debian integration. The things to be done on this front are mainly claiming Debian packages for KDE software, and, as i said, the coding work.
After proposing this on-channel, we reached a rather good consenus. Suy is now our main packager. Qerub was assigned a rather interesting project of extending packaging tool, the quickpackage. It should become able to do almost complete packaging, with a nice KDE GUI to fill in templates and all.
Aiua, as he is a perl coder, was assigned the KDE DebConf frontend. The hack i have written back in the old days of Kalyxo being a startup project, is essentially unmaintained since. And i don’t feel like wrapping my head around perl anytime soon again. And it really needs love, as there are many things to be improved. And so, Aiua is the new kdebconf maintainer.
So, even while the meeting, in it’s original purpose, was a disaster, the total outcome is rather pleasing. We have more people back on board, interested in working on something. The Kaylxo project is essentially those people here. The rest of the crowd is rather inactive… I guess i should make a call on the lists for interested contributors, with a tasklist, very specific tasklist. Something, that would catch an eye and a heart of a potential contributor. Will see…
Anyway, Welcome back to life, Kalyxo!