Farewell Pairs

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Tue Jul 28 13:01:53 UTC 2015


El Dimarts, 28 de juliol de 2015, a les 14:52:06, Aleix Pol va escriure:
> 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?

Please.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Aleix
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