February 12, 2006
KDE 首次 Technical Working Group
KDE.News 的新聞 [Technical Working Group Elected] 提到 KDE 首次的 Technical Working Group 成員已經被選出，並期望能夠有效的處理 KDE 技術協調的議題，整個組織的規劃可參考去年的 [KDE Working Groups Discussion]。節錄新聞稿中成員介紹的資訊：
David Faure, one of the authors of Konqueror, currently works for Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB and is being sponsored by Trolltech to spend 50% of his work time to work directly on KDE. David has been one of KDE's release coordinators in the past. Important for David as a member of the Technical Working Group is that the Working Group does not step on people's toes and makes all decisions. However, he does want the TWG to ease decision-making processes in the areas of application inclusion, release schedules and conflict resolution where KDE currently lacks a decision-making process.
Dirk Müller has been kept busy with system administration and KDE infrastructure tasks. He feels that it's important to move KDE 4 forward because it is once again a big chance to change the way KDE works internally and the way it interacts with the user. Dirk is also doing research in various areas of quality assessment, such as automated code verification. Dirk is working for SUSE/Novell.
George Staikos, who acts as the Canadian and general North-American press contact, wants to ensure that the Technical Working Groups doesn't overstep its boundaries or make questionable decisions. He states that he wants to keep KDE very free of bureaucracy and make sure it continues to follow the bazaar model that made KDE so successful. George is the President of Staikos Computing Services, Inc.
Gunnar Schmidt, one of the founders of KDE Accessibility (which is also his main working area within KDE) sees himself as the accessibility and human interface coordinator in the Technical Working Group. Gunnar is currently working on his diploma thesis which includes writing a decent screen magnifier with a KDE user interface.
Lubos Lunak, the maintainer of KWin, KSMServer, and some X11-related parts in kdelibs has also done quite a lot of work on performance. Lubos wants to do whatever it takes to shape KDE 4 and push it towards becoming reality. Lubos is employed by SUSE/Novell.
Stephan Kulow, the current release coordinator of KDE has been pushing KDE into new directions more than once, notably the modular way of distribution, adoption of gettext and the bug tracking system. Coolo works for SUSE/Novell where his tasks involve working on KDE.
Thiago Macieira is a 24 year-old Brazilian who recently moved to Oslo to work for Trolltech. He thinks that the Technical Working Group has to be pro-active, especially in elaborating a long-term vision for KDE.
有趣的是新聞後面的討論，blacksheep 提到：
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it has been said that Novell was not supporting KDE, but suprising three of these guys are employed by them. This is exciting to know. On the other hand, I believe David Faure used to work for Mandrake... It's disapointing to see that they don't employ no-one in this group, since they are a pretty big distro I think.
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it doesn't really matter where someone works, but what he has done and what we think he can do for KDE. The members were not appointed or elected by companies, but by the members of the KDE e.V., read KDE contributors and developers of all kind.
KDE rules!
由 jserv 發表於 February 12, 2006 01:16 PM