Dear Tristan, I like further developed ideas, mostly, and I also like to develop ideas further.
...I just read such a further developed idea and since I like it a lot, I am goint to develop it further (normal process for me).
Tomorrow Amarok, Linux market leader in the Music Application segment, will announce something revolutionary.
We came to the decision that others know better and therefore we will sync our release schedule to Ubuntu, Linux market leader in the Home User Operating System segment. Our current model of partly time-based and partly feature-based release planing is apparently creating enormous inefficiency in the development of our high-quality software. Mainly because of this we will do 2 releases per year, each 2 days before Ubuntu releases a new version, so that the build servers have enough time to build the packages.
In order to join this with our very fast and feature rich development we will provide at least 25% new or changed code in a time-frame of one year (2 releases), we hope that by setting this minimal growth rate we are able to increase our userbase by 213% per year.
To support these alternations quality assurance will be reduced to a minimum as it can cause scaling issues in combination with this new concept.
This is however only the first step. In a long-term view we aim to breakup the underlying project of Amarok and become a 100% part of the Ubuntu project to share resources and create a strong leader in thew newly created market of Music Home User Appliaction Operating Systems. We also want to prevent our users from wasting half their life with compilation, so we will stop releaseing source tarballs but instead only offer Ubuntu DEB-files.
We will also suggest KDE and all the distributions, we have intensive collaboration with, to start a strong binding to the Ubuntu project as well, and possibly become part of it.
Watch out for the announcement and the moving of our structures from KDE/Amarok ones to Ubuntu/Launchpad.
A nice day wishes your soon-not-to-be-anymore-project-manager.
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tags: WTF?, LoL
heh, funy, back to reality now ->
http://digg.com/design/Artist_needed_for_Amarok_2_0_Windows_Mac_and_Linux_support
"We realize that it's maybe not a really good idea if programmers also do artwork. But we have no choice. While we really can't complain about lack of coders in the project, we have about 0 artists left, so someone's gotta do the job. If you are a talented SVG artist and if you like Amarok (or if you know such a person), please contact us and help!"
digg it pleas if you want amarok 2.0 shining!
Wow, lol.
To begin with Amarok apparently isn't the leader in at least Ubuntu (http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_inst.gz), and this is lol-worthy to make such a fuss about things and simply not ignore them, like many others are.
(subscribing to the fest that's coming up!)
Does this mean that amarok will still be KDE/QT or will it become GNOME/GTK or something different ?
@Bert: This is a satire.
Wow, for a moment I got *really* frightened... That was a good one!
what took you all so long to realize that as goes Ubuntu so goes the world
Your logic was solid through the first half, and then it was like watching you go insane in real time. Aiming for Kubuntu releases with Amarok wouldn't be that bad of an idea, as it would make excellent use of disk images.
..but judging by the tone of said second half of post, I don't know just how interested in distribution logic you are.
I would like to note that in my opinion, FOSS moves too fast for 6 months to be acceptable. I'd go for 3.
..and with KDE4 and whatnot, we're in a period of massive transition, and all bets are off-- syncing with KDE4 minor releases could be a thing to consider as well.
Going too fast for the rest of the world != good idea.
Like it or no, unless you want to be in your own boat, you do have to care about others heh. That's of course optional, if you want to keep the >1% rate, make a two week release even.
Ahem... that was the *26th* of April. Frightening, but slightly late still :P
Dropping the attitude and working with the community to improve the user experience is a pretty hilarious idea, apparently.
Interesting how the idea of syncing release schedules seem to come over offensive to some projects.
A couple of notes:
- Ubuntu itself syncs to gnome.
- the call for syncing is not meant as a call for 'adjust to us'. But rather like a 'let's all adjust to each other'
Also, this target audience was distrobutions and desktop environments. Upstream innovators need to work at their own pace anyway.
Finally, it is not unlikely that KDE will, now that KDE4 is stabilizing, also decide to go to a regular release schedule.
Also, to some extent, this is all already happening. It seems like a small suprise most gnome-oriented distrobutions are releasing around this time.
The majority of the bugs in the new release of gnome have been fixed by the distrobutions. Sent upstream and reached all these distrobutions before their final release.
Ubuntu is not set out to make everybody sync to them. They would gladly reschedule to some other fixed schedule if that works best for most projects.
Also, schedules no not have to hurt quality control at all. It's not uncommon to implement new features in the head, while maintining a stable branch now is it?
Finally, the biggest problem of opensource is not lack of quality. It's lack of marketing. Regular schedules actually help this cause a lot. The difference between marketing is the difference between the popularity of say Firefox and Konqueror. Firefox did not steal users from Konqueror; they stole them for internet explorer. Many new happy Amarok users went from IE to Firefox, then to Ubuntu; then to Kubuntu. Perhaps ending up with a more KDE-centric distrobution and never going back. (cuz they love Amarok so much)
Please don't view Ubuntu and their 'weird' customs like fixed release schedules as wanting to boss OSS.
They don't. They just run the marketing department. Working _for_ you and everybody else.
Trying to kill an idea through mockery and derision, while fun, is not really conducive to intelligent debate.
ralf: actually, kde is *already* on a regular release schedule. it's up on techbase.
I'm very unimpressed by this immature response to a valid suggestion. Responses like this do little to argue a cause and everything to foster bad feelings between members of the open source community. Please consider carefully before taking this approach again.
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