Stopping release of kdewebdev for Applications 16.08

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Thu Nov 10 23:49:42 UTC 2016


El dimecres, 9 de novembre de 2016, a les 19:51:22 CET, Nicolás Alvarez va 
escriure:
> 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.

Looks good to me, i fixed the docs to install to the correct place and added 
the cmake glue so that klinkstatus builds.

If noone disagrees i'll ask sysadmin to move the repos to "proper" around 
monday/tuesday so we can have the release for Beta un thursday from git.

Cheers,
  Albert



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