The KDEPIM / Akonadi situation

[Ben Cooksley]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 7:49 AM Andras Mantia <amantia at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Hey,

Hi all,

>
>  don't want to add much as I'm not active anymore and have my share of
fault
> for not fixing certain bugs, but I'd like to reply to only one thing...
>
> On Friday, June 12, 2020 6:11:31 AM EEST Nate Graham wrote:
> > However I think there is a bigger challenge that just the technical
> > issues. My interactions in bug reports have been quite negative, I have
> > to say, and I don't feel like the developer culture is very welcoming
> > right now.
>
> Sorry if you had bad experience, not sure what happened, but I can assure
that
> most (or rather: all) developers I worked with in the PIM area were nice
and
> friendly.

They are however, terrible at reading emails from the CI system. To the
point I suspect they have filters sending such mail to the trash so it is
never seen.

Akonadi has been in a broken state for several days now on FreeBSD. They
have received multiple notices of this to their mailing list, and yet no
action has been taken.

Because other software outside of PIM depends on Akonadi, the dependency
builds for the CI system are unable to successfully finish (failing in
Akonadi), meaning the CI system is now effectively unmaintainable on
FreeBSD.

Continued builds for software in Extragear and Release Service are
therefore currently dependent on the Binary Compatibility of the system not
being broken.

Should anything happen to affect that then all of those builds will cease
to work and be unfixable. That is a situation that I find fundamentally
unacceptable.

This type of issue has come up numerous times before, and is one that the
PIM developers have failed to address.

I'm therefore at a loss for options going forward and think that the only
reasonable and viable solution in the long run will be to blacklist Akonadi
from the CI system, and remove CI builds for everything with a hard
dependency on it, including all of KDE PIM.

>
> Andras
>
>

Regards,
Ben
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/attachments/20200613/ebcb4d83/attachment.htm>