[Bugsquad] finding the unloved Pt. 2

[John Layt]

On Tuesday 14 July 2009 22:17:00 Lydia Pintscher wrote:
> Heya folks :)
>
> I took the sucky job on me to email every default assignee of a
> product on bugs.kde.org to find out if they are still ok with being
> it. (~450 - fun!)
> It will take another 2 weeks or so to get final results but let me
> tell you it is not looking pretty so far. Not at all. :(   Currently
> 22% of those that answered my survey asked me to find someone else to
> take over their product on bko. I will get to those once I have more
> replies. So far I have heard back from about 1/5.
>
> What I can do already though is give you a list of products for which
> my email bounced. We need to find new/other people to take them over.

Hi Lydia,

As you know kdeprint was removed in KDE4, and the former maintainers are no 
longer active developers.  If there are any 'orphan' e-mail addresses for 
kdeprint related stuff, you can send them all to the old kde-print-
devel at kde.org mailing list which I monitor.

The kdeprint product and its components kdeprint, kdeprintfax, and kjobviewer 
need to be closed for new bugs.  At the moment, I'm assigning all KDE4 print 
dialog related bugs to kdelibs/qt for investigation before sending them 
upstream, but I wonder if we need a simple kdelibs/print-dialog component so 
it's easy for people to find?

Finally, a lot of the Localisation related stuff used to be maintained by Hans 
Petter Bieker <bieker at kde.org>, but I don't think he's been active for a long 
time.  I've slowly been taking over a number of his bugs for the stuff I work 
on (KCalendarSystem, bits of KLocale, etc), if there's any products or 
components he's default for and gives up/doesn't respond I'd consider taking 
them on.

Cheers!

John.