Making polkit-qt-1 a tier1 framework

David Faure faure at kde.org
Sat Jan 23 10:59:28 UTC 2016


On Thursday 14 January 2016 13:20:01 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to suggest to move polkit-qt-1 [1] from kdesupport to frameworks. 
> Reasons are:
> 
> * kdesupport is basically what became tier1 in frameworks
> * it's used by other frameworks, e.g. KAuth (tier 2) and in 
> kde/workspace
> * polkit-qt-1 is currently in a not really released state (last release 
> in 2014, quite a few bugfixes around)
> 
> By moving it to frameworks we get closer to getting rid of kdesupport 
> and get the making releases problem solved once and for all: bug fixes 
> will get to users in a timely manner.
> 
> Opinions?

Sounds good. A few questions come to mind:

- Will you be the official maintainer? (Otherwise who will?)

- Is this an opportunity for a better name? I keep wondering why this lib targets Qt 1 :-)

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