[kde-promo] Releasing Deprecated modules and Tier 4 Definition

[Kevin Ottens]

Hello,

On Tuesday 18 March 2014 13:37:01 Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:36 AM, Markus Slopianka <kamikazow at gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Monday 17 March 2014 18:15:09 Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > > 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).
> > 
> > Um, isn't KDEWebKit missing? Digia already deprecated QtWebKit in favor of
> > Chromium's Blink. Unless anybody is interested in maintaining QtWebKit the
> > KDE bindings should be deprecated as well. Don't you think?

Might make sense...

> Maybe coming up with the list of modules now is not the most useful thing
> now.

... but I agree with that.

> Can we maybe agree that we want an extra value in the <framework>.yaml file
> indicating the maturity of the project?

Yes, feel free to add it. And then anything labeled "deprecated" will get 
moved out of KDE Frameworks and into KDE Porting Aids before release.

> A final list could be polished during the KF5 sprint [1].

Agreed. It's also probably when we'll act on the moves.

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

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