Archiving KDE Telepathy?

[Nate Graham]

+1 for the reasons you provided.

Nate


On 10/25/22 11:08, Nicolas Fella wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> there various KTP modules have seen very little development over the
> last years. Most of the activity that did happen was either release
> housekeeping stuff like version bumps or general code cleanup (i.e. the
> kind of cleanup that some people do across the whole KDE codebase and
> not necessarily out of a genuine interest in KTP). There is also no
> significant activity around it on bugs.kde.org.
> 
> While certainly amazing in its vision it anecdotally never fully made
> use of that potential, partly because it's just trying to solve a
> problem that is really hard to solve.
> 
> Most of the activity I see around KTP is from people trying to use it
> out of curiosity but finding it broken/unpolished or not what they
> expected it to be. We like to say that "Everything in KDE Gear is
> maintained". I'd argue that from this follows that if it isn't actually
> maintained we should drop it from the Gear releases.  We are doing our
> users a disservice by pretending something is maintained when it
> actually isn't. We are also doing ourselves a disservice since
> unpolished software "leaking" into the desktop experience is going to
> make the whole product appear unpolished.
> 
> Furthermore, with the transition to Qt6 very soon now we should make a
> decision: Either we invest a non-trivial amount of work into making it
> work against Qt6/KF6, or we pronounce it dead. Having it "alive" but
> unported isn't helping anyone in the long term.
> 
> Therefore I propose that we stop releasing the various ktp- modules with
> KDE Gear and archive the repositories after the last relevant KDE Gear
> cycle finished.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Nico
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