Releasing Deprecated modules and Tier 4 Definition

[Kevin Ottens]

Hello,

Thanks for the feedback!

Adding kde-promo in CC since it might have implications on future 
communication.

On Saturday 15 March 2014 16:59:54 Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Here are the different options, they're clearly not mutually exclusive.
> 
> 1) Split Tier 4 in a Tier 4 and a Tier Deprecated :)
> [...]
> 2) Release the deprecated content as a separate product
> [...]
> 3) Roll all the deprecated modules into KDE4Support
> [...]
> 4) Announce the deprecated modules will only be released three times
> [...]
> 
> That's it for the four ideas to deal with the deprecated modules, now let's
> find a working cocktail.

So let's pick the following cocktail: 1, 2 and 4.

That means we immediately move khtml and kde4support out of KDE Frameworks (to 
be widely advertised) and into a KDE Porting Aids product (to be advertised 
only to existing KDE developers).

Ben, I think you're going to hate me for that, but we learn as we progress... 
That means we're moving ASAP khtml and kde4support repositories out of the 
frameworks group of the projects tree into a new portingaids group.

We'll also announce at beta time the second product, and that we aim for 
making only three releases out of it, coordinated with KDE Frameworks releases 
as to give people time to port away from it.

Now, the last point... What else do we want to move from KDE Frameworks to KDE 
Porting Aids? Aleix and Aaron proposed the following content for KDE Porting 
Aids:
 * kde4support (obvious);
 * khtml (planned for a long time);
 * kjs (because of khtml I gather);
 * kjsembed (ditto);
 * krunner (because of upcoming sprinter, and only one user anyway);
 * kmediaplayer (unused AFAIK).

I think that list makes sense. Is there anyone who couldn't sleep at night if 
those were in KDE Porting Aids?

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

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

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