Plasma Addons

[David Edmundson]

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 24 May 2014 00:23:45 David Edmundson wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> we've started to get bug reports on plasma-addons. It appears they're
>> distributed as part of OpenSuse RPMs.
>>
>> Can I confirm our position on what we're doing here, based on our
>> conversation last sprint.
>>
>> 1) They will not be released with the plasma release next month
>> I think to do so would undermine the quality of anything we currently have.
>>
>> Plasma Next + 1 should be ok for any plasmoid that someone steps up to
>> maintain (not just port).
>>
>> 2) They should have somewhere else in bugzilla than plasmashell
>>
>> I clean through plasma-shell every other evening, I know others do
>> too, if we include everything under the sun it'll be plasma1 all over
>> again. Stretched too thin.
>>
>
> yep, should be somewhere.
>
> btw,porting the complete set is kdeplasma-addons is not optional for future
> release, because everything that's missing will be perceived as a regression,
> no matter what we feel about it :p

I really don't agree here.
Some of them, KDE Observatory for example, don't even work in KDE4.

Just because someone wrote some code once 5 years ago and then
abandoned it does not make it our duty to support it.

David