[kde-community] retiring unmaintained modules?

[Ben Cooksley]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> El Diumenge, 11 de gener de 2015, a les 00:10:15, Jaroslaw Staniek va
> escriure:
>> On 11 January 2015 at 00:00, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>> > El Dissabte, 10 de gener de 2015, a les 23:37:30, Rick Timmis va escriure:
>> >> Hi
>> >>
>> >> Text idea below
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 23:13:20 +0100, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
>> >>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > El Dissabte, 10 de gener de 2015, a les 22:56:06, Boudewijn Rempt va
>> >> >
>> >> > escriure:
>> >> >> On Sat, 10 Jan 2015, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>> >> >> > Some of them like kword and koffice are already in unmaintained and
>> >> >> > closed
>> >> >> > for bugs, not much more we can do with them other than deleting them
>> >> >> > which i'm not sure it's a good idea.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Close the bugs as "unmaintained"? There's no reason to keep bugs open
>> >>
>> >> for
>> >>
>> >> >> dead projects.
>> >> >
>> >> > In an ideal world you'd have biliions of bug triagers that would go
>> >> > through
>> >> > all the open bugs and move the ones that still exist to calligra for
>> >> > example
>> >> > (meaning i think there's still some sense to keep them there)
>> >> >
>> >> >> > Others like kftpgrabber may be either suggested for new people to
>> >>
>> >> adopt
>> >>
>> >> >> > them and if not moved to unmaintained.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I don't believe in that -- asking for maintainers never works. It's
>> >> >> vanishingly rare that an unmaintained project gets a new lease of
>> >> >> life,
>> >> >> and it never happens if there's no maintainer around anymore to answer
>> >> >> questions.
>> >> >
>> >> > I don't believe in things you belieave and vice-versa ;)
>> >> >
>> >> >> > I guess we should also be really careful, as you said some software
>> >>
>> >> is
>> >>
>> >> >> > "done" and the fact that it didn't get any development doesn't mean
>> >>
>> >> it
>> >>
>> >> >> > should be killed.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Of course. But kmail (not kmail2) is _dead_. It's bugs should be
>> >>
>> >> closed.
>> >>
>> >> >> It's silly to see it cluttering up bugzilla's weekly top-twenty stats.
>> >> >
>> >> > Same as before, ideally we'd have someone going over the bugs and
>> >>
>> >> deciding
>> >>
>> >> > what still happens and what still not and move over to kmail2.
>> >> >
>> >> > Now one way of doing this is crowdsourcing it to the reporters via a
>> >>
>> >> nice
>> >>
>> >> > bug
>> >> > closing email for every of the unmaintained bugs/apps.
>> >> >
>> >> > In one hand it always pisses me a bit off when that happens (i.e. i
>> >> > reported a
>> >> > bug and the only acknowledgement i get is years later saying that it
>> >> > was
>> >> >
>> >> > against an unmaintained version that i should re-check), in the other
>> >> > if
>> >> >
>> >> > someone is able to write a nice text it may not be so bad.
>> >>
>> >> I like this idea... possible text
>> >
>> > It's nice. We would need another version for those bugs that belong to
>> > products that have other products the bug may apply to, say kmail ->
>> > kmail2, kword -> calligrawords, etc.
>>
>> When Calligra appeared bugs have been copied from KOffice for
>> duplicated apps -- IIRC. Or not?
>
> Maybe for calligra, but for kmail? or for kghostview, kpdf -> okular?
>
> I think it's still nice to have that text.

Yes, the duplication was only done for Calligra so the text would be
necessary for all the other bugs.

>
> Cheers,
>   Albert

Regards,
Ben

>
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