Kaffeine's future

[Daniel Kreuter]

Hi

Am Montag, 9. Dezember 2013 schrieb Mario Fux KDE ML :

> Am Montag, 02. Dezember 2013, 18.34:15 schrieb Christoph Pfister:
> > Hi guys,
>
> Good morning Christoph
>
> > I know I should have done this step earlier. After taking over this
> > project from Christophe Thommeret long ago and doing a lot of
> > interesting stuff, I've been busy with real life in the past months
> > (years) and the situation will not change in the future. As I'm unable
> > to maintain Kaffeine in an appropriate manner, I've decided to abandon
> > the project.
>
> Too bad to hear but thanks a lot for your past work! I watched TV hours
> with
> Kaffeine and used it a lot. So thanks for your work and Kaffeine.
>
> > Therefore I'm asking whether someone is interested in taking over
> > maintainership; I've listed the current state of the project at the
> > end of this mail. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to deal with
> > patches earlier [ sorry guys! ], so I don't have a logical candidate
> > or so. But if somebody is willing to take over [ you should know a bit
> > about Qt and KDE and preferably have some Dvb / Atsc equipment at hand
> > ], I will try to support the handover.
>
> Depending on where you are on this planet I could send you a DVB-S card to
> test and port Kaffeine.
>
> Christoph:
> What do you think of migrating the code and mailing lists (etc.) from
> sourceforge to KDE infrastructure?
>
> Or would it even make sense to merge Kaffeine with the Plasma Media Center?
>
>
I thought of this , too. I think TV support would be awesome to have in PMC
as well and Kaffeine was always the only working solution for Linux I found
so far.

> Just my 2 Rappen
> Mario
>
> > Regards,
> >
> > Christoph
> >
> >
> > - Last released version (QT4 / KDE 4): Kaffeine 1.2.2 on 2011-04-04.
> >
> > This should still be stable enough for many purposes.
> >
> > - Bug tracker: https://bugs.kde.org/
> >
> > - Git repository: KDE extragear;
> >
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/multimedia/kaffeine/repository
> >
> > There is a transition from xine to vlc going on; needs some love.
> >
> > - Mailing lists / releases: hosted at sourceforge.
> >
> > - Home page: http://kaffeine.kde.org/ which is down at the moment (but
> > can be reactivated if someone takes care of it); archived version:
> > http://web.archive.org/web/20130613232503/http://kaffeine.kde.org/
> >
> > - Varia: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org
> >
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