Braindump - officially declaring it as unmaintained?

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Hi Cyrille,

Am Freitag, 22. März 2013, 14:46:18 schrieb Cyrille Berger:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2013-03-21 22:51, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > Hi Cyrille,
> > 
> > at the Calligra Sprint two weeks ago Braindump was found to be
> > actually
> > unmaintained, at least the last commit to braindump from you seems to
> > be from
> > june last year, while there are still a few bugs open (even from
> > yourself :)
> > )*
> > 
> > Would you agree to this finding?
> 
> No I don't, I object to them :)

Okay, fine to see you still overlooking (and using?) Braindump :)

> > Or is it just feature complete for you,
> 
> It is definitely basic features complete. There are a couple of
> possible improvements, there are a couple of features that are
> desirable, but it has everything it needs to function properly. But it
> is true that most of the improvement to braindump are being done by you
> guys right now... in shapes plugins :) And there is still an outstanding
> feature, that I had like to tackle one of these days, having an always
> visible text tool (a bit like in Krita, but without dragging around, and
> supporting only the regular text box). But that is more a usability
> improvement than a really big required feature.
> 
> > and the few bugs are not in your way?
> 
> Yeah, I would classify the bugs, as:
> 
> need more info:
>    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266377
> 
> can't reproduce:
>    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285873
>    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291178

Possibly time to ask the reporters to reproduce their problems with the latest 
Braindump, then close these bugs?

> don't know how to fix, except by throwing XMLGui to the trashbin:
>    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299161

Seems a bug in XMLGUI with default menus being dumped if not filled on initial 
creation, have found two workarounds, soon coming up with a review request :)

> most likely not a braindump bug:
>    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298145
> 
> and finaly, a bit annoying, but really mostly a problem for other
> applications that use the webshape:
>    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304368
> 
> > Can we officially declare that we are looking for a new maintainer
> > for
> > braindump, e.g. by a blog entry?
> 
> Lets say it like this, I would not mind having someone come and take
> over maintainership and develop new features, and bring braindump to the
> next level :)
> I would say it is current status is low maintenance, ie, reproducible
> bugs fixing, but no new features development.

Okay. So it would be better you who blog about this then :)

And you might need to recall the word being out of maintainership for 
Braindump being searched, as spread by 
http://slangkamp.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/calligra-sprint-2013/ and
http://blogs.kde.org/2013/03/10/fruits-css2013

> > If so, would you blog about this yourself? Or could you give some
> > cite which I
> > could use in a blog post of mine? Perhaps some additional ideas (or
> > inspiring
> > mockups) you have, to help people get the idea of Braindump and what
> > they
> > would like to use/develop it for?
> 
> Now the question is if this blog is specifically about getting
> maintainer or about attracting contributors to underdeveloped area of
> calligra that might interest some people.
> 
> > PS: I personally would like to take over and e.g. add features I like
> > from
> > DeepaMehta (http://deepamehta.de/en). But my TODO list has lots of
> > higher
> > priority stuff... ;)
> 
> Feel free :)

Thanks. Next year (tm). Perhaps... ;)

Cheers
Friedrich