Stopping release of kdewebdev for Applications 16.08

[Nicolás Alvarez]

2016-10-31 7:54 GMT-03:00 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>:
> El dimarts, 25 d’octubre de 2016, a les 23:40:12 CET, Albert Astals Cid va
> escriure:
>> El dilluns, 17 d’octubre de 2016, a les 20:31:50 CEST, Nicolás Alvarez va
>>
>> escriure:
>> > 2016-10-06 19:44 GMT-03:00 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>:
>> > > El dimecres, 5 d’octubre de 2016, a les 22:06:22 CEST, Ben Cooksley va
>> > >
>> > > escriure:
>> > >> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Luigi Toscano
>> > >> <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it>
>> > >
>> > > wrote:
>> > >> > Albert Astals Cid ha scritto:
>> > >> >> El dimecres, 13 de juliol de 2016, a les 1:27:21 CEST, Albert Astals
>> > >> >> Cid
>> > >> >> va
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >> escriure:
>> > >> >>> El divendres, 8 de juliol de 2016, a les 11:50:44 CEST, Andreas
>> > >> >>> Sturmlechner>>>
>> > >> >>>
>> > >> >>> va escriure:
>> > >> >>>> On Friday, 8 July 2016 at 11:11, Luigi Toscano wrote:
>> > >> >>>>> On Friday 08 of July 2016 11:03:05 Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
>> > >> >>>>>> None of them were ported yet, in fact they haven't seen commits
>> > >> >>>>>> in
>> > >> >>>>>> years.
>> > >> >>>>>> They should probably be converted to git, still, but imo no need
>> > >> >>>>>> to
>> > >> >>>>>> keep
>> > >> >>>>>> it releasing.
>> > >> >>>>>
>> > >> >>>>> Some of them could be probably dropped, but also isn't it
>> > >> >>>>> possible
>> > >> >>>>> that
>> > >> >>>>> they slipped out of the radar because not on git? Would it be
>> > >> >>>>> possible
>> > >> >>>>> to
>> > >> >>>>> have them converted first and see if this changes?
>> > >> >>>>
>> > >> >>>> kommander and kfilereplace are not actually webdev related, so
>> > >> >>>> could
>> > >> >>>> be
>> > >> >>>> moved into other categories (kdeutils?) if not dropped.
>> > >> >>>>
>> > >> >>>> Not sure how many people still do image maps (so chances this will
>> > >> >>>> be
>> > >> >>>> picked up again are slim), and klinkstatus still depends on
>> > >> >>>> kdepimlibs-4
>> > >> >>>> to build.
>> > >> >>>
>> > >> >>> Let's move them to git first and then decide if we want to drop
>> > >> >>> them
>> > >> >>> or
>> > >> >>> not.
>> > >> >>>
>> > >> >>> Given the freeze for KDE Applications 16.08 is like in 2 days i
>> > >> >>> would
>> > >> >>> not
>> > >> >>> rush for now, let's all make a note for 2.5 months and decide if we
>> > >> >>> want
>> > >> >>> to
>> > >> >>> release them for KDE Applications 16.12.
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >> So it's 2.5 months later now.
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >> I would like to get them moved to git if possible, get them released
>> > >> >> for
>> > >> >> KDE Applications 16.12 and tell people they need to start caring
>> > >> >> about
>> > >> >> them if they don't want to see them dropped for 17.04
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >> Now the question is, how do we get them into git?
>> > >> >
>> > >> > I think that sysadmins have (or had) a system dedicated to SVN-to-git
>> > >> > conversion, and also the examples of the old conversions. There are
>> > >> > some
>> > >> > instructions here:
>> > >> > https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/MoveToGit/UsingSvn2Git
>> > >>
>> > >> We had such a system - all such machines have since been shutdown
>> > >> though.
>> > >> I think Nicolas has a container on one of our machines which he does
>> > >> the occasional conversion which gets requested in, but it has been a
>> > >> long time since that was last used if I recall correctly.
>> > >
>> > > Any way i can get that 65G svn file somehow or we can't port anything
>> > > else
>> > > from svn to git?
>> > >
>> > > Or Nicolás can I convince you to git-ify kdewebdev?
>> >
>> > It's done! Please review:
>> > kde:scratch/nalvarez/kdewebdev-kfilereplace
>> > kde:scratch/nalvarez/kdewebdev-kimagemapeditor
>> > kde:scratch/nalvarez/kdewebdev-klinkstatus
>> > kde:scratch/nalvarez/kdewebdev-kommander
>>
>> I don't think much changes happened but the branches from
>> https://websvn.kde.org/branches/Applications/
>> are missing (i.e. you only have the KDE/XXX ones), would it be much work to
>> get them in?
>
> Ping?

Sorry for the delay! I have added the Applications branches (without
losing Andreas's changes in master) and pushed to my scratch space.

-- 
Nicolás