Small summer status overview + request for some opinions

[Tuomas Nurmi]

Thank you for the comment, Pedro!
I agree with your take. Maybe the lists made more sense when they were actively
maintained, but I believe their actual content hasn't been touched since at least 2013,
and much (most?) of the development since has been done by people not on those lists.

Nowadays information about contributors in projects are more readily available than
before, thanks to all the nice git web interfaces etc.; [at least technically proficient]
people might be more likely to check out project's git repository to get to know the
people behind the project, than an extra tab in program's about dialog.

I merged the changes that removed the extra technical dependencies from the 'extended
about dialog'. The author/contributor lists in their basic form aren't technically
problematic, however, so maybe they will stay along with the donors tab for now, and
maybe they'll be compacted/cleaned up more for Amarok 4, then.

Tuomas


Pedro de Carvalho Gomes kirjoitti lauantaina 29. kesäkuuta 2024 23.29.39 UTC+3:
> Hi Tuomas,
> 
> Thanks again for the nice effort. I think Sven already covered the 
> "donours" tab. So, about contributor, I give my humble opinion. I think 
> it's a bit pointless to keep it the software a list of contributors. 
> It's either outdated, or too long. I personally prefer to have 
> contributions listed by major release (as you kindly did for 3.0). If 
> so, a mention to "Amarok community", and links to relevant channels, 
> would be enough (again, a simple personal opinion)
> 
> Best,
> 
> Pedro
> 
> On 2024-06-27 15:18, Tuomas Nurmi wrote:
> > Hi everyone
> > I thought I'd write a couple of words of status update here.
> >
> > There's been some work on pruning outdated documentation in online resources etc ongoing,
> > and also removing outdated/unused bits in Amarok code, too.
> > 3.0.2 will come probably in July; there are already a bunch of nice improvements listed in
> > Changelog: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/blob/master/ChangeLog
> > and some more will come before release. Open bugs/wishes are now at 503, and it'll
> > probably go under 500 before release. (I think I'll also close all the bugs reported
> > against the latest Windows version 2.8.0 from 2013 soon - no point in keeping them open
> > as they've been mostly fixed since, but not going to land on any Windows user before someone
> > wants to make Windows-3.0's happen)
> >
> > Qt6 build keeps progressing a bit further, bit-by-bit, while everything's still staying
> > Qt5-compatible too. I have no idea yet if there will be a point when same codebase can be
> > built with Qt5 and Qt6, but at least getting as near as that as possible is probably a good idea.
> >
> > There's also one pending change I'd be very happy to hear more opinions on:
> > https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/merge_requests/107
> > As it kind of effects how credits / info on earlier contributors are displayed, I'd be happy to
> > hear if the idea of removing the openDesktop.org integration sounds justifiable to other
> > people, too, before merging (some screenshots demonstrating the state are shown on the
> > merge request).
> > Additionally, I'd maybe like to remove the donors tab altogether. It lists 3 people who
> > contributed to Roktober 2012 or earlier. Maybe it would be time to.
> >
> > Wishing you a nice summer Thursday!
> > Tuomas
> >
> >
> >
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