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Interview With The KDE And GNOME Release Managers

Posted by timothy on from the dedication-defined dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It has to be tough, keeping projects as big as GNOME and KDE organized, but that is the job given to those projects' 'release managers.' In an interview on Linux and Main, KDE's Dirk Mueller and GNOME's Jeff Waugh discuss their wacky, devil-may-care, hell-bent-for-leather, zany, fun-filled world -- the shadow, as T.S. Eliot put it, between the idea of a release and its reality."

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  1. Re:aint it ironic....... by LMCBoy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Kdevelop is direct competitor of [the] MS programming environment.

    No, it isn't.

    Most importantly, KDevelop is not a commercial product, so it has nothing to compete for. Sure, it's nice if lots of people use it, but ultimately it matters not at all how many "customers" KDevelop has. As long as there are interested developers, the project will thrive.

    More obviously, KDevelop targets only unix apps; MSVB targets only windows apps. They're in completely different "markets".

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