Farewell Pairs

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> Ping?
>
> This was months ago and i'm still unsure if pairs is supposed to be released
> or phaed out in favour of the pairs activity of gcompris.
>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
>
> El Dissabte, 21 de març de 2015, a les 16:09:17, Albert Astals Cid va
> escriure:
>> El Divendres, 20 de març de 2015, a les 09:24:14, Marco Calignano va
> escriure:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Pairs is a KDE4 application, and I thought would also kept in all the
>> > Kubuntu releases that also support KDE4.
>>
>> That's up to Kubuntu people not for us.
>>
>> > If it doesn't make any problem (and I think is not) would be really cool
>> > to
>> > have the last Long Term support (16.04) with KDE4 and Pairs.
>>
>> Agan that's up to Kubuntu people not for us to decide.
>>
>> > I could still intall that on the Kindergarten project (since the kid
>> > already know the game) and gradually introduce GCompris.
>> > Is that feasable or is it a big problem?
>>
>> What is feasible? I'm unsure what is that you are asking.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Albert
>>
>> > Cheers
>> > Marco
>> >
>> > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:10 AM, Bruno Coudoin
>> > <bruno.coudoin at gcompris.net>
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> > > Le 20/03/2015 00:36, Aleix Pol a écrit :
>> > > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
>> > >
>> > > wrote:
>> > > >> El Dimecres, 18 de març de 2015, a les 11:42:37, Marco Calignano va
>> > >
>> > > escriure:
>> > > >>> With this Email I want to announce that Pairs is deprecated. It
>> > > >>> won't
>> > >
>> > > be
>> > >
>> > > >>> ported completly to KDE 5 but our effort will go into the
>> > > >>> development
>> > >
>> > > of
>> > >
>> > > >>> GCompris. I also have blog about it if you want to read.
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> http://marcuzzokde.blogspot.de/2015/03/farewell-pairs.html
>> > > >>
>> > > >> Are you effectively asking to not release Pairs anymore with the next
>> > >
>> > > KDE
>> > >
>> > > >> Applications release?
>> > > >>
>> > > >> What does the rest of people think?
>> > > >>
>> > > >> If so you should tell the release team.
>> > > >
>> > > > My opinion is that is useless to keep Pairs while pushing GCompris.
>> > > >
>> > > > We had many ideas for Pairs and with more or less effort we can deploy
>> > > > them on GCompris, pushing Pairs forward could happen, but would also
>> > > > be frustrating. I think it's a good thing that we unite and make teams
>> > > > rather than splitting efforts.
>> > > >
>> > > > This is the last feature/bugfix commit I found [1]. There was a
>> > > > partial effort to port it by Marco but it never materialized. I
>> > > > understand it's better to focus the few spare time Marco and I have
>> > > > into improving GCompris, even if a little bit, rather than bodging a
>> > > > Pairs port.
>> > > >
>> > > > Regarding the release, I'd say it's fine if it is released with 15.04,
>> > > > on the kde4 version, mostly because now it's too late to remove it
>> > > > anyway. If there's important bug reports I can take care about them.
>> > > >
>> > > > What do the rest think?
>> > >
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > On the GCompris side we are pleased to hear that. It is true that it is
>> > > easier to maintain an activity in GCompris than a separate application.
>> > >
>> > > We already have a 'pair' activity that we call 'memory'. It has many
>> > > data sets, images, numbers, maths, and others and we have an 'AI' mode
>> > > to play against Tux. Some 'pair' level could be easily ported to
>> > > GCompris.
>> > >
>> > > The user interface is different as we do not have a 'pair' menu entry.
>> > > We have sections and in each one there maybe an appropriate 'pair'
>> > > activity.  I hope this is not an issue.
>> > >
>> > > Bruno.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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It's over.

Do you want me to request a move to unmaintained?

Aleix