On Wednesday 09 of March 2016 16:50:39 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Wednesday, March 09, 2016 17:30:01 Luigi Toscano wrote: > > > Let me cut right to the chase, do you want to maintain it? Does it need > > > to > > > be in Plasma? > > > > Yes, I can maintain it. In fact many features come from components I > > already control. > > > > > You're right that Plasma devs don't seem to want it, I thought my > > > initial > > > email made that pretty clear. We do think that disconnected systems are > > > rather a fringe case, and that our time and effort is better spent on > > > other > > > things. > > > > Then the question still holds: with a maintainer, does it have a place in > > Plasma? I'm not talking about an hypothetical time and effort for > > maintaining this offline use case (which will continue to be 0) but in > > the > > light of the statement above. In other words, if the question mark in the > > subject is real or rhetorical. > > I'm ready for both possible outcomes. > > Ah OK, sorry for misunderstanding it. > > I think there are the following options: > > 1) keeping it in Plasma with maintainer > 2) keeping it outside of Plasma with maintainer > 3) moving it to unmaintained (that's basically killing it) > 4) keeping the status quo (not wanted) > > My personal preference would be an optional component (hence Extragear), > since I think that the vast majority of users has web access, so > khelpcenter isn't necessary and only adds to our maintainance burden > without much gain in those cases.
My offer stands and we can rule out 4) and 3). Note that 2) could also mean a move to Applications (from your point of view it does not matter too much). The case 1) shouldn't add maintenance anyway as the maintainer is identified. > > If we can move from 4) to 1) (so status quo but with maintainer), that would > already be an improvement of course. > > The question mark was honest, we haven't made a decision on it, but > different people do have expressed a preference for not shipping it (as or > by default in Plasma releases). We may have missed important points, and we > don't want to just kick things out unilaterally. I think we can leave some time for other people to comment. The shortest deadline of all possibilities is the one for moving into Applications, and there are still 8 days before the dependency freeze and two weeks before the branch. -- Luigi _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
