[kde-freebsd] kde3 status

[Thomas Abthorpe]

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On August 27, 2009 12:52:42 pm Andriy Gapon wrote:
> What is current status of KDE3, both for FreeBSD KDE team and for upstream?

Unofficially, this is a place to start, http://techbase.kde.org/User:Jucato

>
> Is actively maintained?
> I understand that there is probably no new development for KDE3, but how
> about bufixes - are bug reports still welcome and do they have a chance to
> get fixed? Or should I rather just switch to KDE4?

No assurance of bugfixes from KDE for version 3. At some point going to 4 will 
be the only way to go

>
> So many questions but they are really one question which I failed to
> formulate properly :)
>
> In fact I am going to submit a number of bug reports and I'd like to
> understand what to expect.

Confession time, I still mostly use KDE3 myself. I would like to see it stay 
around for some time to come. But the fact of the matter is we have a small 
and talented group of folks helping support the FreeBSD port of KDE. It takes 
a combined effort of all of us to keep on top of KDE4 updates, and trying to 
keep multiple branches maintained is a lot of work for a group of volunteers.

So really, unless somebody openly contradicts me, or has a better plan, I 
suspect that kde3 will go away at the end of 2009.


Thomas

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