Stopping release of kdewebdev for Applications 16.08

[Albert Astals Cid]

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?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> >> Or, am i being too naive and we should just drop them?
> > 
> > Well, it would be good if this transfer is done and this knowledge is not
> > lost (you never know).
> > 
> > --
> > Luigi
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben