Suggestion to drop kopete from KDE Gear

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dilluns, 31 de juliol de 2023, a les 10:48:50 (CEST), Jonathan Riddell va 
escriure:
> I'd agree on this having taken a quick look at it, I can't see a useful
> function for this app any more.

If we remove it, i would like to delay this to 23.12 given we're already in 
beta for 23.08.

Also gives people that may care about it to fix things if needed.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Jonathan
> 
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 at 22:15, Heiko Becker <heiko.becker at kde.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I wanted to keep kopete at least buildable against recent version of its
> > dependencies by removing some obsolete parts. But it occured to me that if
> > I were to continue with that, there wouldn't be much left. It suffers from
> > the same problems with dead or (at least dying) protocols I wrote down for
> > ktp [1], so I'll just add some relevant things affecting kopete:
> > 
> > - Contrary to ktp it doesn't use pidgin for ICQ/AIM, but a custom
> > implementation, the result is the same. AIM ceased to exist and ICQ
> > changed
> > its protocol (and thus kopete silently fails to with the latter).
> > - XMPP/Jabber allows to connect, but joining a room crashes kopete, which
> > matches a bug report from 2019 [2]
> > - winpopup was apparently discontinued after Windows XP
> > - qq: I'm hesistant to give them my phone number to manually register an
> > account (the link behind the register button times out). Pidgin removed
> > support for this in 2011, which is roughly the same time a non-porting
> > commit touched the code and there is a bug report that it indeed doesn't
> > work [3]
> > 
> > I didn't have/find an instance to test Bonjour and my distro doesn't
> > provide a package for libmeanwhile, so no testing of these.
> > 
> > In addition, it has a very long list of (partly very old) bugs [4] (no
> > idea
> > how many, bugzilla stops after 500), and my impression from testing a few
> > is that many of them are easily reproduceably today.
> > 
> > As much as I used kopete for chatting back in the day, I seriously think
> > it's broken enough to stop shipping it with Gear, if nobody surprisingly
> > steps up and does at least some basic maintenance.
> > 
> > If you know anybody who's still around and cares for kopete, please feel
> > free to bring this mail to their attention.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Heiko
> > 
> > [1] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/release-team/2023-June/013080.html
> > [2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412228
> > [3] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460744
> > [4]
> > 
> > https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CONFIRM
> > ED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&list_id=2429758&order=changedda
> > te%20DESC%2Cbug_status%2Cpriority%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_id&product=kopete&qu
> > ery_format=advanced