KDE Telepathy as part of KDE Applications

[Martin Klapetek]

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 12:35 PM, David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk
> wrote:

> Valorie spent some time at Akademy telling me about some other person she
> knows who uses the project. It might not be active, but it isn't all doom
> and gloom either.
>

I'm not saying it's doom and gloom or even that it doesn't work
anymore, I'm just saying it's unmaintained and most of the parts
around it are also unmaintained. I don't know if KDE has any
policies about releasing and shipping unmaintained software,
so I just wanted the release team to be aware. That is all.


>
> We do have two semi-active developers; Alexandr(Kaffiene) and James.
>
> You've been actively blocking anything from James for over a year. I know
> he's very difficult to work with, but amongst his distributed-presence
> monstrosity he is also fixing things including going through the bugs.
>
> (for context for others, you get a complex patch, you ask a question about
> something and you just get a bigger patch with more and more unrelated
> changes in it with zero description. No matter what you type, this
> continues forever. I think it's a language problem). He isn't bad though -
> the fact that he's kept uploading them despite the frustration shows some
> willpower.
>

I did block his patches because they went the exact opposite
from where I wanted the project to go, as a maintainer. I have
told him exactly what I want those patches to turn into, he would
always ignore what I said. I have even asked him to take over
the project and do whatever. Sorry, if someone's unwilling to
collaborate on a project in the least bit, even participate in a decent
discussion, yes, I will not accept such contributions, even more
so if I as a maintainer don't agree with them. I mean, that's what
maintainers are for. I don't think it's a language problem at all.

KDE is built upon collaboration after all.


> Upstream is mixed. Kaffiene's work on Telegram is pretty good.
>

> As for KAccounts. It's been a huge setup since it went in.
> I don't think I've ever managed. It's one of 2 things (the kpeople port
> being the other) that killed me working on the project.
>
> Thinking positively we do have two options for the latter.
>  - We can restore my original ktp-accounts-kcm, it would be a fairly
> simple job, the code is still there and the original auth handler still
> works.
>  - we modify my ktp-bootstrap file to fetch and build them.
>

Well, KAccounts just works™, it's just unmaintained too.

Cheers
--
Martin Klapetek
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