What about Kfloppy and SuperKaramba

[Burkhard Lück]

Am Freitag, 11. Dezember 2009 21:03:47 schrieb Rolf Eike Beer:
> I just read that KPilot was dropped from kdepim. That reminded me of some
> corpses in kdeutils ...
> 
Not only kpilot, I just killed docs + translations for 3 apps in kdepim.

> I must confess I never used any of the two. I you don't count my krazy
>  fixes from two weeks ago both applications have not seen any developer
>  activity for month, just some general cleanups that were applied on many
>  projects in the whole repository at once. Is it time to move them to
>  tags/unmaintained?
> 
> I doubt anyone has a strong need for Kfloppy these days as USB sticks are
> cheaper, more robust and e.g. no computer I bought in the last 2 years even
> had a floppy drive. Those we ordered at work 3 years ago were probably
>  never used.
> 
> For SuperKaramba I'm less sure but given the speed of plasma development I
> think there can't be much that this project is still needed for.
> 
> Currently they are just bitrotting and spitting warnings about using
>  K3Process and the like. When Friedrich took over kdeutils he tried to find
>  new maintainers but I can't see that anyone ever stepped up. Maybe it's
>  time to let them rest in peace somewhere else. Any comments on this?
> 
From my pov as user I don't need Kfloppy + SuperKaramba and from a QA pov these 
apps should be removed, if there is no active maintainter.

Judging from my experience with translations/documenation/i18n issues in kde 
it is better to have nothing than some bitrotting apps.

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Burkhard Lück