On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > In our effort to clean and maintain the autotest code base, we've been > looking at making the web interface to use the latest stable versions of > each core component. The first stage of this work went upstream this > Monday. > > Now, one thing that was brought into our attention that gwt-incubator is > a deprecated piece of code, so myself and Cleber started to look at > getting rid of its dependency. > > While doing that we realized that the planner frontend is the only > frontend that does require the incubator. Now, I remember clearly that a > while ago, Greg mentioned that there are no more plans of finishing > planner, and some different route was chosen to attend his team's needs. > Right now planner is an unfinished piece of software. > > Given that it's unfinished and there are no plans to finish it, my > proposal is to remove it from the autotest tree. The plan is: > > 1) Remove gwt frontend code > 2) Remove django app and models > 3) Plan a migration removing planner related tables > 4) Of course, a lot of testing and certifying we've done it right :) > > I am sending this to people that might have a word to say about it. > Meanwhile, we'll start working on it. > > Cheers, thanks for your attention! > > Lucas > > Removing it makes sense to me. Dead code is a burden. It is always available in version control should anyone ever want to resurrect it and this thread is archived on the mailing list for pointers and info about it. :) -gps
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