Kioslave repos

[Kevin Ottens]

On Wednesday 09 April 2014 11:57:37 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 April 2014, Àlex Fiestas wrote:
> > I'm against having anything in plasma-* without maintainer and even less
> > if
> > it is something that is known to have bugs (many) in KDE4.
> > 
> > So we wither split it and hope somebody will give love to it or remove it.
> 
> Not talking about that repo in particular, but...
> on the other hand, putting stuff in own micro repositories is as swiping
> under the carpet as leaving them in one of the main ones, if anything it
> ensures even more that it will go abandoned and unnoticed.
> If it's stuff that really nobody is even using and is safe to drop, that's
> ok (would be even ok to just delete it tough)

Exactly.

> but if is something that the user needs anyways and potentially causes
> regressions in the experience, it has to stay, and in the place that goes
> the least unnoticed.
> Developers being confortable with it, or even (gasp!) being actively
> maintained goes completely secondary behind the causing as less regressions
> as possible for the users.

I suddenly feel understood. :-)

That's my worry with some of the recent splits in workspace land, they seem to 
be done without the user in mind or regressions in sight.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

KDAB - proud supporter of KDE, http://www.kdab.com

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