<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 2:15 PM, 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">El dimecres, 2 d’agost de 2017, a les 18:44:17 CEST, Christoph Feck va<br>
escriure:<br>
<div><div class="gmail-h5">> On 02.08.2017 17:52, Martin Klapetek wrote:<br>
> > Hey guys,<br>
> ><br>
> > I was long thinking about writing this email but kept putting it off,<br>
> > but I think it's only fair towards everyone, especially our users so<br>
> > here it goes finally.<br>
> ><br>
> > The KDE Telepathy project is as of now unmaintained for over<br>
> > a year. That means there is no active development nor bugfixes<br>
> > except a few occasional patches from an uncooperative guy.<br>
> > Nobody is handling the incoming bugs. The protocol support is<br>
> > outdated, the KAccounts project is unmaintained (including the<br>
> > upstream), I'm not sure about the upstream Telepathy project<br>
> > but my guess is that it's also not in active development anymore<br>
> > either.<br>
> ><br>
> > As the last maintainer of KDE Telepathy and KAccounts, I feel like<br>
> > we're doing our users a disservice by shipping such outdated and<br>
> > unmaintained software. Therefore I'd like to recommend to stop<br>
> > shipping KDE Telepathy (all the ktp-* packages) as part of KDE<br>
> > Applications, if just to not give the impression that this is still being<br>
> > developed.<br>
> ><br>
> > But I'd like to leave it at that - a recommendation from the previous<br>
> > maintainer. If you guys still think it's worth being shipped, it's ok if<br>
> > you continue so. I just wanted you to be aware of the state of the<br>
> > project that we ship as our main IM solution.<br>
> ><br>
> > Cheers<br>
> > --<br>
> > Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer<br>
><br>
> Looking at the bug tracker, we receive some bugs for KAccounts, but<br>
> virtually none for other KTP components. Either nobody uses those (in<br>
> this case I have no objections for your proposal), or they work fine,<br>
> which means I see no reason to stop shipping them.<br>
><br>
> Note that we have literally hundreds of "unmaintained" modules,<br>
> including many games and edu apps in KDE Applications. Our general<br>
> policy is to move them out only when they are no longer buildable or<br>
> usable, and nobody steps up to fix that.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Agreed, it doesn't seem to be "horribly broken", so shipping it for those that<br>
still use it makes sense imho.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Fine with me then, as I said in the previous email - I didn't know</div><div>if KDE has any policies for shipping unmaintained apps and</div><div>I just wanted the release team to be aware, especially given</div><div>I went through the effort of getting KDE Telepathy into KDE</div><div>Applications releases in the first place, I kinda felt it's my duty</div><div>to at least inform you.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>--<br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Martin Klapetek</span><br></div></div></div></div>