remove obsolete apps from kde.org/applications

Burkhard Lück lueck at hube-lueck.de
Sat Jan 6 19:01:51 UTC 2018


Am Donnerstag, 4. Januar 2018, 12:22:48 CET schrieb Burkhard Lück:
> Am Donnerstag, 4. Januar 2018, 00:10:53 CET schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> > El dijous, 4 de gener de 2018, a les 0:05:09 CET, Luigi Toscano va 
escriure:
> > > Burkhard Lück ha scritto:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > we do not ship the applications jovie, kfilereplace, klinkstatus,
> > > > knode,
> > > > kppp and kremotecontrol any longer, see:
> > > > https://download.kde.org/stable/applications/17.12.0/src/
> > > > 
> > > > Attached patch removes these apps from kde.org/applications.
> > > > 
> > > > validated index.json file with jsonlint-py
> > > 
> > > Going forward, do we want to remove any traces of them, or keep the
> > > unmaintained applications somewhere else, clearly marked as such, for
> > > historical purposes?
> > > We could even keep them at the same place, but remove them from the
> > > summary
> > > page, and add some banner.
> > 
> > That makes sense to me, that way google links and stuff still work, but
> > people are told "you want to use something else".
> > 
> > Now, who's going to code that? :D
> 
> Would the attached patch work?
> It adds a new category Unmaintained with blogilo to kde.org/applications.

I talked with bcooksley about this patch an with his permission I commited it, 
see https://www.kde.org/applications/

We need a proper Unmaintained icon and a list of (already removed) 
applications and have a cheap solution.

-- 
Burkhard Lück



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