Review Request: remove unmaintained plugins from Calligra

[Cyrille Berger]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:35:27 +0200, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org>
wrote:
> On 19 April 2012 14:18, Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I see this comment a lot, but in practice it's not true. I have never
>> seen anybody ask "did you once have a good implementation of what I am
>> about to do but remove it?" before starting any effort. It just doesn't
>> happen.  If you go ahead and remove all of the modules in the list,
could
>> you at least create a page (say Calligra/Deletions)  on
community.kde.org
>> that clearly lists what is removed, and how to get it back. At least we
>> will have a trail that we can point people to.
> 
> 
> How about keeping the directories empty  with only README that
> explains what the plugin is supposed to do and where to look for
> archived code?
> Or if this still looks like a pollution of the filesystem, maybe we
> can keep obsolete/ directory with such empty dirs?

I think a single OBSOLETE file at the root of calligra source directory
is more than enough. And that file would contains a link to the wiki and
the branch that contains the obsolete stuff.

-- 
Cyrille Berger