[kde-community] Closing the kde-core-devel mailing list

[Laszlo Papp]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 August 2014 15:28:09 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
>> > Simple frameworks
>> > support list for random people who are not involved with KDE in any way
>> > and
>> > don't care about development (of any kind) inside of the community, but
>> > are
>> > just looking for support and possibly willing to offer support too,
>>
>> Yes, that's what kde-devel is supposed to be for. If we take away the
>> review  board email, much of the traffic is exactly that.
>
> My suggestion: use qt-interest at qt-project.org for supporting people who want
> to just use KF5, without developing it.

I would understand that suggestion if the kde frameworks became
official Qt 5 add-ons, although even then one could say to have
modularized lists rather than a catch-all list where the relevance to
your interest might be X % or lower. I think it is ok not to have a
catch-all mailing list for everything that may end up in inqclude,
i.e. qt libraries.

> That would leave kde-devel for what it's been used for the past 15 years:
> discussing development of applications that are tightly integrated with KDE's
> desktop environment (i.e., Plasma desktop).

I am not sure if I had understood kde-devel it so. At work, I have
never had the chance to use Plasma, yet I used many KDE applications
(e.g. Okular, GwenView, KSnapShot, etc) using the kde libraries.