Resigning Plasma Notifications Maintainership

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Tue Feb 14 14:39:09 UTC 2017


On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Kai Uwe Broulik <kde at privat.broulik.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> in July I took over maintainership of Plasma Notifications from Martin
> Klapetek and slowly started revamping them to be suited for the current
> decade, adding productivity features, making them more usable for
> enterprises, etc. My personal highlight is the draggable previews feature I
> added, it makes sharing screenshots so much easier.
>
> That being said, there have been quite a few changes to the notification
> applet and dataengine recently, that went in without me knowing (and I
> usually do read commit emails on mailing lists), some even without review,
> or pushed in before I even saw the Phabricator Differential. Some of them
> even broke things badly, some were even released to the public in that
> state.
>
> There's no point in me being the maintainer if I'm not consulted. I'll still
> do the occasional bugfixing there as part of my overall Plasma work but
> don't expect any groundbreaking new features [1], I'm tired of constantly
> having to clean up the already delicate codebase.
>
> Cheers,
> Kai Uwe
>
> [1] https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Notifications
>

Hi Kai,
I'm sorry you're feeling this way, I'm possibly responsible for the
breakage. My apologies.

If there's any way we can work together to fix it, I'll be happy to
work with you, if you're interested.

Aleix


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