On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 09:49:47AM +0300, Nicu Buculei (OCAL) wrote:
Jon Phillips wrote:
I think that merging the two projects *completely* is not a good idea. If anything, Inkscape has been so successful because it has had a clear vision of becoming a compliant SVG editor. However, by completely merging the two, I fear that we will harm develop of both projects.
I think I agree with Rejon here and I'm pretty much an Inkscape zealot :p My feeling is that a *complete* merge would increase the noise in many
Well, in my estimate what we're dealing with is a dying project - in fact the thread that started this whole discussion in the first place was a question about if we're dead or not. We get questions almost daily - will there be more tarball releases? has there been any progress with ccHost? is this project still alive?
I would like to not see openclipart die out as a project. I think it's a good idea and has caught on well with artists. However, there aren't enough people actively working on it - heck, there aren't really even enough people to put in the time to get others working actively on it. I find most of my own ocal time is spent doing infrastructure work that is literally duplicate work for Inkscape (wiki de-spam, account setup, etc.)
We've been saying for months, "Everything will work well once ccHost is up." Rejon and I have put time in on it, but it's a much bigger effort than we have time for, so we've been hoping others would chip in and help. We've had a few people express interest in working on it, yet here we are months later and we seem no closer to having it ready to replace the old tools than before.
I still think the idea of having ccHost is great, and should be done. However I am skeptical that it will actually *get* done. I don't think we can do it alone.
Bryce