KOffice becomes the Calligra Suite

Posted Dec 7, 2010 12:27 UTC (Tue) by sorpigal (guest, #36106)
Parent article: KOffice becomes the Calligra Suite

It seems like the story here is really "Nobody gets along with kword maintainers, koffice forks," and takes the opportunity to rebrand while they're at it.

KOffice becomes the Calligra Suite

Posted Dec 7, 2010 12:48 UTC (Tue) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link] (4 responses)

Maintainer -- singular, not plural :-). But the Calligra Suite is not a fork in the proper sense: we see it as the legitimate continuation of KOffice, and the KOffice name will disappear. Only Words is a true fork, of KWord, and one that is led and developed by everyone else who used to work on KWord.

KOffice becomes the Calligra Suite

Posted Dec 7, 2010 15:43 UTC (Tue) by macson_g (guest, #12717) [Link] (3 responses)

Folks seems to be pretty secretive about the underlying story, which in turn seems to be pretty interesting. Does anyone have any details (mailing list posts, irc logs)?

KOffice becomes the Calligra Suite

Posted Dec 7, 2010 15:46 UTC (Tue) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link] (1 responses)

It's really not interesting. Just rather painful because it went of for a very long time and hurt a lot of people and was very difficult to find a solution to. I don't think you'd enjoy reading the mailing list archives a lot, even though they are public. It's much better to be productive and have fun coding!

KOffice becomes the Calligra Suite

Posted Dec 8, 2010 9:22 UTC (Wed) by gowen (guest, #23914) [Link]

Boudewijn, can I just say how nice its been to see a split in a project in which -- after a fairly acrimonious split -- the forkers are making such an effort to move on without any further acrimony.

KOffice becomes the Calligra Suite

Posted Dec 7, 2010 18:47 UTC (Tue) by henning (guest, #13406) [Link]

Here are some more details: post from devel list.