[kgraphviewer-devel] New release of KGraphViewer

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:02:17PM +0200, kleag at free.fr wrote:
> I just  commited a change making it not to crash but reloading (manually with F5 or automaticaly when touching the graph file) still does not work. I don't understand what happens, probably in cgraph.

That would be unfortunate, my one attempt to report a bug wasn't much
success: http://graphviz.org/mantisbt/view.php?id=2438

> Concerning the absence of kgv from distributions, it is not in my Mageia 4 nor in the Ubuntu I use also at work. And I agree with 
> you Milian, it is  not surprising that some distributions remove it. 

I actually disagree though, kgraphviewer never failed to compile on any
of the "stable" distributions and nobody reported the issue from the
distribution side (there was a bug on it, but not from anyone
representing any of the distributions).
>From my point of view what we really lack is maintainers in the
distributions that ensure such issues are reported.

> I cannot take up  the maintainership as I'm not enough available to handle releases, etc. I'm already responsible of large software at work that  we have freed up (aymara/lima) and I cannot take more currently.

I do not know how to do releases yet, thus my request to document it.
I hope that I will have the time to regularly look into any bug reports,
so hopefully we won't end up in quite the same situation again.
But one person is never enough to reliable maintain a project either
way, but if we are now 3 people who at least occasionally can spare a
few moments it might work out.

Reimar

> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "Milian Wolff" <mail at milianw.de>
> À: kgraphviewer-devel at kde.org
> Cc: kleag at free.fr
> Envoyé: Jeudi 19 Juin 2014 13:26:4
> Objet: Re: [kgraphviewer-devel] New release of KGraphViewer
> 
> On Thursday 19 June 2014 12:45:27 kleag at free.fr wrote:
> > Hi Milian,
> > 
> > You're perfectly right. I alse wanted to do so since some time. But I have
> > some crashes on my machine (when reloading changed graphs). I should
> > probably try to correct them before. I'll try to have a look to that today.
> > I will send a mail as soon as I'm ready.
> > 
> > Do you agree with that ?
> 
> Yes, sounds good.
> 
> > BTW, I'd like to see kgraphviewer back into distributions...
> 
> Due to the long time it simply did not work at all with the update to 
> GraphViz, I can only understand the distributions to kill KGraphViewer. I'd 
> welcome it if you could take up the maintainer role again and polish 
> KGraphViewer more, and ensure it stays functional. That should ensure it gets 
> packaged.
> 
> There are also some more performance fixes I'll push.
> 
> Bye
> 
> > ----- Mail original -----
> > De: "Milian Wolff" <mail at milianw.de>
> > À: kgraphviewer-devel at kde.org
> > Envoyé: Jeudi 19 Juin 2014 12:32:47
> > Objet: [kgraphviewer-devel] New release of KGraphViewer
> > 
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > are there any objections to creating a new release of KGraphViewer? The
> > fixes in supporting newer GraphViz versions should be made public, I think.
> > 
> > If nothing speaks against that, I'll tag and branch off 2.2 and send it to
> > the packagers. Sounds good?
> > 
> > Bye
> 
> -- 
> Milian Wolff
> mail at milianw.de
> http://milianw.de
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