kdeutils maintainer? khexedit program unmaintained

[Allen Winter]

On Friday 30 November 2007 22:12:21 Allen Winter wrote:
> On Friday 30 November 2007 14:34:51 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > from http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.0_Module_Status#Module_Status I 
> > read there is no Release Maintainer for kdeutils. So who decides/cares there? 
> > I guess this list, then.
> > 
> The Release Team, so I'll copy this over to our mailing list.
> 
> > With KHexEdit currently there is a tricky situation. Under kdeutils/khexedit 
> > live two separate projects, the program KHexEdit and the binary editor plugin 
> > (see the subdirs core, gui, parts), project name Okteta*.  I personally only 
> > care for Okteta, but not for the program (see footnote why). 
> > 
> > Right now KHexEdit is roughly ported and runs, but is not fully functional 
> > (painting draws outside of PaintEvent, view tabs running wild and crash the 
> > program, html/rtf export not working). So not really in release state (yet).
> > Two solutions:
> > 1. Exclude from release and hope for me getting Okteta ready for the next one.
> > 2. Search maintainer and fix KHexEdit.
> > 
> > I favour #1 (one program to rule things, no conflicts ;) But I understand 
> > those who like #2 more, just tell me what you think.
> > In case most like #2 more I would blog and mail a maintainer query to Danny 
> > for inclusion in the digest.
> > 
> > So?
> > 
> > * Both projects share no code, as the plugin was written from scratch. Instead 
> > of modifying KHexEdit to make use of the libs, I decided to write a program 
> > also from scratch, using the libs. I am only halfway done, see 
> > playground/utils/okteta. Bookmarks, Undo, and embedded search dialog are 
> > still missing to match KHexEdit's features, but else looks good.
> > 
> > Friedrich
> > 
> 
> If khexedit (the application) is truly terrible and unmaintained then we shouldn't
> release it.  We should remove khexedit from kdeutils and plan on Okteta for 4.1.
> In the meantime, Okteta should be developed in playground.
> IOW: I agree with option 1.
> 
> This is the same plan we are following for KAider replacing KBabel.
> 
> 

So should I add a kdeutils table to the Module Status page
saying that khexedit will be removed for 4.0 and that 
okteta will be new in 4.1??

Freidrich: I assume you will be happy to do the khexedit move to unmaintained/4?

-Allen


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