Randa: GIT migration plan for KDE Multimedia

[Harald Sitter]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:18 PM, ian.monroe at gmail.com
<ian.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:02, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:59 PM, ian.monroe at gmail.com
>> <ian.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What about the idea of combining all the non-applications
>>> subdirectories into a single project? Would make the dep tree easier,
>>> and they are all really small anyways.
>>
>> That would mean that we need to move unmaintained stuff out of the
>> repos, thus have to do hardcore fiddeling with the history.
>
> Why does it mean that?

Because shipping broken and unmaintained software results in bad
public perception of KDE and particularly our multimedia apps.

>> So we
>> might as well split proper. It does not make much difference whether
>> we expand to 5 or 13 repos really.
>
> Well people complain a lot, see the latest thread on release-team. I
> think making the dep tree very simple is a good thing and not hard to
> do.

It was pointed out by fedora and kubuntu packagers that it makes much
sense to have kdemm split.

regards,
Harald