[Kde-games-devel] KMahjongg archaeology

[Roney Gomes]

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So now we have divergent streams of work on KMahjongg:
>
>   - A released version of KMahjongg, using obsolete graphics,
>   - Laurent's port of existing KMahjongg to KF5, using obsolete graphics,
>   - Christian's port of KMahjongg to QGraphicsView --- branch "qgraphic", unmerged,
>   - The patch in the above ReviewBoard entry,
>   - A whole slew of Jan-Peter Nilsson's patches on Bugzilla and ReviewBoard,
>     some of which may clash with Christian's "qgraphic" branch.
>
> What to do?  I really hate to see good work slipping away.

I vote for prioritizing Christian's porting work. The main reasons
being that we really do not have enough people to maintain the games,
so when someone arrives and kindly disposes some time to pick one of
them and move it away from a deprecated and no longer maintained API
we should grab the opportunity and thankfully accept this person's
work.

Of course the same idea applies to Jan-Peter recent patches, but I
believe the port is more important in this case since there's more
people familiar to QGraphicsView than to KGameCanvas, which makes the
game more prone to receiving contributions. Furthermore, we can't
really afford maintaining a game using an abandoned API.

So I propose the following: let's merge "qgraphic" into master and
check whether the bugs fixed by Jan-Peter still persist, if so, we can
update his patches so they make sense according to the new code
structure. I'm sure I can find some time for this and help Jan-Peter
on that, if he agrees, naturally.

Cheers, Roney.