Is kpovmodeler still valid or should it be removed

[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.

> > > 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?
> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert

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Burkhard Lück