Plan, Karbon: Disable the "Maintainer wanted" splashscreen for release branches?
Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
kossebau at kde.org
Wed Jun 26 00:02:38 BST 2013
Am Dienstag, 18. Juni 2013, 09:25:21 schrieb 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
Thanks for the replies. So please have a look at
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111247/
as proposed solution.
Cheers
Friedrich
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