Farewell Pairs

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> 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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Aleix