What to do with the Krita & Calligra?

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Mon, 30 May 2016, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:

> 
> Hi Boud,
> Is the situation different in this regard than it was in KOffice 1 -> Calligra 2 time?
> Co-installation was not there and is not here in case of Calligra 2/3 apps. Maybe package(s) of Krita 3 can be marked as obsoleting calligra-krita (2),
> whatever the package name is in given distro.

_If_ distributions can do that without obsoleting also calligralibs -- I'm not sure about that.

> 
> Perhaps we can afford to have proper update for README.PACKAGERS.
> 
> Somewhat apparent change is lack of krita -> calligralibs dependency but it's kind of transparent for users.
> 
> 
> On 30 May 2016 at 16:39,
> ​​Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org> wrote:
>       Hi,
>
>       Am Montag, 30. Mai 2016, 16:14:32 CEST schrieb Boudewijn Rempt:
>       > Hi,
>       >
>       > Tomorrow we'll release Krita 3.0.
>
>       So awesome to have reached that point :)
>
>       > At that point, the stable version
>       > of Krita is no longer part of Calligra. On the other hand, Krita is
>       > still part of the last stable release of Calligra, which makes it
>       > hard for distributions to package both and make them coinstallable.
>
>       Does it? Did anyone report problems?
>
>       > When we split up Krita and Calligra I had expected both projects to
>       > release more or less at the same moment, especially because the port
>       > seemed to have posed much fewer problems for Calligra than for Krita.
>       >
>       > The question is: what do we do now? I guess there are three options:
>       >
>       > * Also release Calligra 3.0 Really Soon Now
>
>       Sadly not possible, given the lack of dev resources at the moment.
>
>       > * Make a Calligra 2.9 release without Krita
>
>       Would that be really needed? Unless some distri packages all of Calligra into
>       one package (which would be aweful and IMHO not supported by us), packagers
>       should be able to create packages of new Krita next to packages from the old
>       calligra, no?
>
>       > * Accept the problem and do nothing
>
>       Packagers could be told to use the cmake flag "-DBUILD_krita=off" with the
>       existing calligra 2.9 tarball, that should in theory work to skip krita. But
>       well, I am not sure what the problem is.
>
>       > There is a simular problem with the calligra.org website: when will
>       > we remove Krita from the website? When there's a new Calligta
>       > release, now that there's a new Krita release, or...
>
>       IMHO as soon as Krita 3 is out. The old landing page on calligra.org/krita
>       would tell about Krita now grown up to be a project of its own.
> 
> 
> @Cyrille: Would you be able to update the site with at putting least proper links to krita.org? Or hand over to someone else.
> 
> A short list:
> - ​I have no access here:
> ​update the menu by removing Krita​ (2 places)
> -Editing possible, I can try: remove the https://www.calligra.org/tour/calligra-suite/graphics-applications/​ and unlink it from
> https://www.calligra.org/tour/calligra-suite/
> -Editing possible, Boud: would you try? calligra.org/krita page stays (as it's target from elsewhere in the internet) but needs update - mentioning the
> change
> -calligra.org artwork - I am volunteering to cut off one app :)
> -places such as wikipedia would need updates, please consider changed for your language :)
> ​ 
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> 
> 
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> 
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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.krita.org, http://www.valdyas.org