[bt-devel] Integration into KDE (e.g. KDEEDU)

[Joachim Ansorg]

Hi Heiko, David,
finally, I'm sending my reply to this nice thread. I read the eMail thread and 
will post my thoughts about here without quoting stuff :)

I have several problems including BibleTime into KDE:
	-Man power. We just have one developer actively working on the project's code 
and doing the organisational things. My time is limited in the time I have 
tests in university and I got more of it in the vacations. So that doesn't 
fir well with the KDE schedule where we may not add new things or have to fix 
stuff in a limited period of time.
	-My faith :) Although I don't see a problem to use BibleTime somewhere to 
support christian in the best way and I even think offering a Quran module 
might be a valuable ressource for (some) christians. But I will never remove 
anything like the Bible study howto or the daily tips which include scripture 
quotes from the standard BibleTime package. And having these things in it 
will surely offend the (mostly, I guess) atheistic KDE developers, 
translators and users all over the world so they'd remove that stuff.
	-We'd loose our independence as a project. We'd be forced to follow 
guidelines, feature plans, and more which are not made by christians. I fear 
that our motivation and plans will collide with KDE's understanding of 
development.

On the other hand, we'd need more volunteers for things like translations and 
icons. But I'm not going to leave my aims with BibleTime behind just to get 
more volunteers.

My personal conclusion is that we need more volunteers in the BibleTime team 
itself and that we, the developers, need to encourage and support this in a 
better way. I'd like to get a team spirit for the people in the BibleTime 
team so we can do the work together and not alone so we can provide 
christians using Linux with a better tool all over the world.

I hope my tone wasn't too harsh. It's not meant to be :)
Blessings,
Joachim