Is kpovmodeler still valid or should it be removed

[Burkhard Lück]

Am Dienstag, 11. März 2014, 08:54:11 schrieb Burkhard Lück:
> Am Montag, 10. März 2014, 22:54:50 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> > El Dilluns, 10 de març de 2014, a les 12:36:59, Burkhard Lück va escriure:
> > > Am Samstag, 8. März 2014, 22:11:11 schrieb Freek de Kruijf:
> > > > One of our translators mentioned kpovmodeler in extragear-graphics. It
> > > > seems this package still requires KDE3 stuff and the last development
> > > > has
> > > > been done 5 years ago. It also is hardly usable anymore because it
> > > > calls
> > > > an external program, povray, which apparently needs another set of
> > > > parameters to function properly.
> > > 
> > > You are right kpovmodeler development in kde svn seems to be dead and it
> > > does not build here, but there is apparently some development outside
> > > kde
> > > repos, see http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=90952&start=15
> > > According to the forum thread there are still users who would like to
> > > work
> > > with kpovmodeler.
> > 
> > Well, if they want to work with kpovmodeler, someone should contact the
> > guy
> > that is working on it and tell him to come over and work with us :-)
> 
> I have mailed him yesterday, waiting for a response now.
> 
Now response to my mail nor on the forum thread.

> > > > Hence my question: should it be moved to unmaintained?
> > > 
> > > extragear/graphics has more candidates for this question:
> > > 
> > > kuickshow:
> > > no development since > 4 years
> > > needs an old no longer available library imlib1 to build
> > > no deb packages provided
> > > 
> > > kgrab
> > > no development since many years
> > > builds and works for me, but apparently it has minor functionality
> > > compared
> > > to ksnapshot, so I fail to see a need for this application
> > > 
> > > kfax
> > > no development since many years
> > > builds and works for me with the example fax in the code
> > > no deb packages provided
> > > Are there still any users of this application?
> > > 
> > > My conclusion:
> > > applications which can not be build since a long time should not be in
> > > extragear, therefore kuickshow should go to unmaintained and kpovmodeler
> > > tp
> > > playground, if some wants to develop it otherwise to unmaintained as
> > > well
> > > 
> > > kgrab should go to unmaintained
> > > 
> > > I am not sure what to do with kfax
> > 
> > We have the application lifecycle document over in techbase that describes
> > this kind of stuff, it's just that noone is janitoring the process so that
> > it actually happens. Do you want to do it?
> > 
>From my pov I'd like to file a sysadmin request to move these apps to 
unmaintained4:

kpovmodeler
kuickshow
kgrab

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Burkhard Lück