Plan, Karbon: Disable the "Maintainer wanted" splashscreen for release branches?

[C. Boemann]

On Tuesday 18 June 2013 01:41:50 Elvis Stansvik wrote:
> 2013/6/18 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org>
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I wonder if it is a go idea to have the "Maintainer wanted" splashscreen
> > in Plan and Karbon also enabled in the 2.7 releases. People who still
> > see some use in either programs surely will get annoyed quickly, and
> > there is no option
> > to turn it off.
> > 
> > So I would argue to enable that splashscreen always in master, but only
> > in debug builds of release branches. That way it will reach those people
> > who are
> > kind of okay to mess around with code and building (and could also patch
> > that
> > screen away) but not annoy Joe User.
> > 
> > For releases we should (have) put that message rather (additionally) in
> > the About dialog, I think now. We still can, either asking the
> > translators for exception or keeping it in english (like the
> > splashscreen, which is also untranslated).
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> I think you're absolutely right. I don't think such a message has a place
> in releases, and especially not in splashscreens. It's not the right venue
> to solicit new maintainers. Releases are releases after all, and they have
> end users as their sole target :)
> 
> Regards,
> Elvis
+1