Plasma repositories spring cleaning

[Nicolas Fella]

Am 03.03.23 um 13:45 schrieb Nicolas Fella:
> Hi,
>
> while porting Plasma repos to Qt6 I've come across several repos in the
> plasma/ namespace on invent that I found questionable:
>
> - khotkeys: consensus seems to be to abandon it, because maintaining two
> global shortcut systems is no joy: https://phabricator.kde.org/T2050.
> It's still released with 5.27 though
>
> - ksysguard: We stopped releasing/maintaining it several releases ago.
> Not part of any supported release. Could be archived?
>
> - kwrited: The functionality is kind of old/niche. Is it worth having at
> all? If yes, given it is quite tiny, would it make sense to fold it into
> plasma-desktop instead of having it separate?
>
> - kwayland-server: Obsolete implementation detail. Not released any
> more. Can probably be archived now
>
> - lancelot: An alternative Plasma launcher. No releases, not much
> activity in recent years. If anyone cares about it it might be better of
> maintained outside of KDE to avoid impression that it is "officially"
> supported
>
> - plasma-active-window-control: No release, a little activity in recent
> times. What do we do with it?
>
> - plasma-redshift-control: No releases. Does this provide anything
> interesting compared to the "official" night color stuff?
>
> - plasma-simplemenu: Had releases in the past, but last one is from 4
> years ago. Semi-active recently. Might be worth incorporating into
> proper Plasma release?
>
> - plasma-tests: Is this useful at all?
>
> - smaragd: Last release 5 years ago. Not a whole lot of activity since
> then. Make it part of the proper Plasma release or kill it?
>
>
> I'm asking this mainly to see what "needs" to be ported to Qt6/Plasma6,
> but I also think it's important to have a clear messaging about what we
> as a "Plasma Team" properly support and what is on a best-effort basis
> by whoever feels like supporting it.
By "sprint cleaning" I mean "spring cleaning" of course. That said I'm
desperate for a Plasma Sprint soon ;-)