kdeutils maintainer? khexedit program unmaintained

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Am Freitag, 28. Dezember 2007, um 00:09 Uhr, schrieb Friedrich W. H. Kossebau:
> Hi,
>
> sorry, could not push this discussion lately. So once again:
>
> Am Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2007, um 00:23 Uhr, schrieb Friedrich W. H. 
Kossebau:
> > Hi Allen,
> >
> > Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2007, um 23:11 Uhr, schrieb 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_Sta
> > > > >tu s 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.
> >
> > Alright, am subscribed there, too.
> >
> > > > > 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.
> >
> > Did someone besides me try KHexEdit? I might be wrong with my impression
> > and biased (well, the latter I am for sure ;).
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > Not happy (heh, this is killing/removing a program which is around since
> > 1999), but I would do.
> >
> > As the Okteta libs and KParts living in subdirs of KHexEdit (core/, gui/
> > and parts/) are maintained, by me, I would keep them there, just moving
> > the files in the toplevel dir (and pics) which belong to the KHexEdit
> > program. The parts are implementing the modul interfaces from
> > kdelibs/interfaces/khexedit/, which are used at least by KPilot and
> > KDevelop (http://lxr.kde.org/ident?i=BytesEditInterface).
> >
> > I guess renaming kdeutils/khexedit/ to kdeutils/okteta after that would
> > match the content left in there, but it would make too many people
> > unhappy, that close to a release, right? Too sad.
> > Moving to extragear, to follow the path of KAider, right now would be
> > similar complicated...
> >
> > I would svn mv kdeutils/khexedit/*  -N (or similar) to where exactly?
>
> Ah, you meant /tags/unmaintained/4/, now that I searched for it I found it.
>
> So, did anyone else test KHexEdit and is there a decision that I should
> move the program?

Noone able to answer this? So I should decide? Well, I will move the program 
files of KHexEdit (but not the Okteta parts in the subdirs) to 
tags/unmaintained/4 tomorrow, that is on Monday 31.12., then, if noone minds.

I should have had this idea ealier, but given that Espen Sand, the official 
maintainer by the About Data, has been inactive for some years and also not 
worked to port KHexEdit to KDE4 I forgot to include/ask you, Espen, about the 
future of KHexEdit at all. Sorry, at least now trying by including you in cc:

Friedrich