Quality Team: LCD weather station and calendar (in panel) are really broken

[Mark]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:58 PM, David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk
> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday, June 14, 2012 13:15:34 Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
> >> You misread the Quality Team mail: we are asking for the LCD Weather
> >> Station Applet to be fixed for 4.9 or removed.
> >
> > i misread nothing. the request for it to be removed is denied.
> >
> > if you consider for a moment what this would do to people's otherwise
> working
> > installations, not to mention what it would mean for future incentive to
> fix
> > it, the reason for this should become evident.
> >
> >
> > p.s. i'm very happy that we have a more active Q/A team. i am not happy
> with
> > how it is sometimes handling issues. there was a commit reverted the
> other day
> > without checking with the original commiter nor the maintainer of the
> applet
> > or module which should never have been reverted. fortunately i was on
> irc and
> > watching commits that day. now we have a "no, remove it" statement which
> does
> > not fit the way we develop in plasma, which is:
> >
> > * as a team
> > * with communication
> >
> >
> > i'm sure the QA team can improve over time so that we can all work
> together
> > better. thanks ...
> >
> For communication between two teams to get better both teams need to
> improve.
>
> Plasma does not communicate as well as you imply, speaking as a person
> who is trying to get involved in Plasma and help fix things, there is
> so much resistance. Reviews are slow, replies on maliing lists (such
> as this one) can be very condescending instantly blaming an entire
> team for a lack of communication and most ML threads seem to derail
> into arguments.
>
> Have you discussed the weather LCD applet with the team before denying
> the request. I've not seen anything? Either you haven't, and have just
> decided on behalf of your entire team which isn't a good example of
> communication, or there's a communication channel which doesn't
> include me...which again isn't a good example of good inclusive
> communication.
>
> The real reason this happened this sort of things happens is because
> Plasma does not have an attitude of everyone doing reviews. Everyone
> will just follow the example set by everyone else. It's the perfect
> way of increasing communication between everyone so we all know what's
> going on. Especially once we've entered such a beta phase.
>
> David Edmundson
>
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> > Aaron J. Seigo
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Just a FYI, http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/ seems to be free and
decent as well.
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