Hi,
On 2013-03-21 22:51, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
Hi Cyrille,
at the Calligra Sprint two weeks ago Braindump was found to be
actually
unmaintained, at least the last commit to braindump from you seems to
be from
june last year, while there are still a few bugs open (even from
yourself :)
)*
Would you agree to this finding?
No I don't, I object to them :)
Or is it just feature complete for you,
It is definitely basic features complete. There are a couple of
possible improvements, there are a couple of features that are
desirable, but it has everything it needs to function properly. But it
is true that most of the improvement to braindump are being done by you
guys right now... in shapes plugins :) And there is still an outstanding
feature, that I had like to tackle one of these days, having an always
visible text tool (a bit like in Krita, but without dragging around, and
supporting only the regular text box). But that is more a usability
improvement than a really big required feature.
and the few bugs are not in your way?
Yeah, I would classify the bugs, as:
need more info:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266377
can't reproduce:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285873
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291178
don't know how to fix, except by throwing XMLGui to the trashbin:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299161
people are using the wrong application (should use calligra flow):
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303817
most likely not a braindump bug:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298145
and finaly, a bit annoying, but really mostly a problem for other
applications that use the webshape:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304368
Can we officially declare that we are looking for a new maintainer
for
braindump, e.g. by a blog entry?
Lets say it like this, I would not mind having someone come and take
over maintainership and develop new features, and bring braindump to the
next level :)
I would say it is current status is low maintenance, ie, reproducible
bugs fixing, but no new features development.
If so, would you blog about this yourself? Or could you give some
cite which I
could use in a blog post of mine? Perhaps some additional ideas (or
inspiring
mockups) you have, to help people get the idea of Braindump and what
they
would like to use/develop it for?
Now the question is if this blog is specifically about getting
maintainer or about attracting contributors to underdeveloped area of
calligra that might interest some people.
PS: I personally would like to take over and e.g. add features I like
from
DeepaMehta (http://deepamehta.de/en). But my TODO list has lots of
higher
priority stuff... ;)
Feel free :)
And to be absolutely clear, by "features complete", I mean "basic
features to make the application useful complete". And stuff like
mindmapping are highly desirable, not just for braindump but for flow as
well. And that is also why I contributed the matlab/latex formula tool,
last autumn. And synchronization with owncloud would also be highly
desirable...
--
Cyrille Berger Skott
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