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

[Sebastian Kügler]

Hey all,

On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 22:31:36 Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
> The LCD Weather Station applet is in a non working state and the Quality 
> Team thinks it cannot be shipped as it is. The problem is that two 
> providers which cover Europe had an API change (and some freedom 
> restrictions?) thus the applet can't display any information for a lot 
> of locations. I know it's the data engine code the culprit but the 
> consequence is a non working applet.
> See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300885 (Weather Station Applet 
> does not work anymore with bbcuk or wetter.com provider)
> 
> Another applet is in bad shape as well: the Calendar applet when placed 
> in panel. The date does not update when the day changes and the layout 
> is totally broken making the calendar not readable. See 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236874 and
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285362
> 
> We hope these can be fixed as well as the regressions regularly sent to 
> the list.

I think things we can take away from this thread:

- We want each other to look at commits more
- Just removing components or reverting commits is not a way to fix bugs, it 
  probably leads to more regressions even
- We need to improve on our collaboration
- New people coming into the team, in which form however, need to learn the 
  ropes, and screwups once in a while are quite natural. It's growing pains, 
  though, and growing is a good thing
- We share the same goals, and should all try to not step on each other's 
  toes. (Ok, the last thing hasn't been mentioned explicitely, but still seems 
  quite well backed by evidence. :P)

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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