<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Albert Astals Cid <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aacid@kde.org" target="_blank">aacid@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">El Diumenge, 11 de gener de 2015, a les 00:10:15, Jaroslaw Staniek va<br>
escriure:<br>
<div><div class="h5">> On 11 January 2015 at 00:00, Albert Astals Cid <<a href="mailto:aacid@kde.org">aacid@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> > El Dissabte, 10 de gener de 2015, a les 23:37:30, Rick Timmis va escriure:<br>
> >> Hi<br>
> >><br>
> >> Text idea below<br>
> >><br>
> >> On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 23:13:20 +0100, Albert Astals Cid <<a href="mailto:aacid@kde.org">aacid@kde.org</a>><br>
> >><br>
> >> wrote:<br>
> >> > El Dissabte, 10 de gener de 2015, a les 22:56:06, Boudewijn Rempt va<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > escriure:<br>
> >> >> On Sat, 10 Jan 2015, Albert Astals Cid wrote:<br>
> >> >> > Some of them like kword and koffice are already in unmaintained and<br>
> >> >> > closed<br>
> >> >> > for bugs, not much more we can do with them other than deleting them<br>
> >> >> > which i'm not sure it's a good idea.<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> Close the bugs as "unmaintained"? There's no reason to keep bugs open<br>
> >><br>
> >> for<br>
> >><br>
> >> >> dead projects.<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > In an ideal world you'd have biliions of bug triagers that would go<br>
> >> > through<br>
> >> > all the open bugs and move the ones that still exist to calligra for<br>
> >> > example<br>
> >> > (meaning i think there's still some sense to keep them there)<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> >> > Others like kftpgrabber may be either suggested for new people to<br>
> >><br>
> >> adopt<br>
> >><br>
> >> >> > them and if not moved to unmaintained.<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> I don't believe in that -- asking for maintainers never works. It's<br>
> >> >> vanishingly rare that an unmaintained project gets a new lease of<br>
> >> >> life,<br>
> >> >> and it never happens if there's no maintainer around anymore to answer<br>
> >> >> questions.<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > I don't believe in things you belieave and vice-versa ;)<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> >> > I guess we should also be really careful, as you said some software<br>
> >><br>
> >> is<br>
> >><br>
> >> >> > "done" and the fact that it didn't get any development doesn't mean<br>
> >><br>
> >> it<br>
> >><br>
> >> >> > should be killed.<br>
> >> >><br>
> >> >> Of course. But kmail (not kmail2) is _dead_. It's bugs should be<br>
> >><br>
> >> closed.<br>
> >><br>
> >> >> It's silly to see it cluttering up bugzilla's weekly top-twenty stats.<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > Same as before, ideally we'd have someone going over the bugs and<br>
> >><br>
> >> deciding<br>
> >><br>
> >> > what still happens and what still not and move over to kmail2.<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > Now one way of doing this is crowdsourcing it to the reporters via a<br>
> >><br>
> >> nice<br>
> >><br>
> >> > bug<br>
> >> > closing email for every of the unmaintained bugs/apps.<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > In one hand it always pisses me a bit off when that happens (i.e. i<br>
> >> > reported a<br>
> >> > bug and the only acknowledgement i get is years later saying that it<br>
> >> > was<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > against an unmaintained version that i should re-check), in the other<br>
> >> > if<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > someone is able to write a nice text it may not be so bad.<br>
> >><br>
> >> I like this idea... possible text<br>
> ><br>
> > It's nice. We would need another version for those bugs that belong to<br>
> > products that have other products the bug may apply to, say kmail -><br>
> > kmail2, kword -> calligrawords, etc.<br>
><br>
> When Calligra appeared bugs have been copied from KOffice for<br>
> duplicated apps -- IIRC. Or not?<br>
<br>
</div></div>Maybe for calligra, but for kmail? or for kghostview, kpdf -> okular?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Last time I was trying to close the kmail 1 bugs as unmaintained, asking people to reopen if it stilkl applies to kmail2 I was shouted at and told that somebody has to check if that still applies to Kmail2 before closing, go figure! I just fear that with 880 open reports this is never going to happen...</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Myriam</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Proud member of the Amarok and KDE Community<br>Protect your freedom and join the Fellowship of FSFE:<br><a href="http://www.fsfe.org" target="_blank">http://www.fsfe.org</a><br>Please don't send me proprietary file formats,<br>use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300)</div>
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