On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 08:02:16PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Wed, 2019-01-23 at 18:52 +0000, Debarshi Ray wrote: > > Grep for "Future of Pocket in GNOME" from 24th August 2018 in your > > inbox. > > Which solves what? You're removing the Documents and Mail categories, > you're removing Pocket support.
Two things. First, we are talking about GNOME Documents, GNOME Online Accounts, GNOME ..., etc.. We are talking about GNOME. If you are not going to respond to a thread that has run for six months, on a topic that you care about, then I am sorry, I can't assume good faith. Those who participated agreed that they don't have time to work on Pocket, nor is the current state of affairs very good. That's how we decided to drop it. > Reading that mail you mentioned won't bring those features back. It's > far from the first time you've wanted to remove Pocket support from > GOA, as if it was a time sink, and a maintenance pain. > > I just don't understand the strategy of disabling/removing features and > services, breaking apps on newer hosts. We have always, since the very first days when David Zeuthen was around, pushed back against adding random accounts to GOA. We have always said that the integration should be meaningful to a good cross section of users, that there should be a default application or OS component, etc.. This is nothing new. We eventually wrote it down as https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeOnlineAccounts/Goals The Pocket integration doesn't do much. You yourself said that you seldom use it. We regularly refuse requests to add random accounts to GOA. Just look at the enhancement requests left open on Bugzilla. There are lots more that I have dealt with from other channels. It isn't fair that we turn down other requests, but keep Pocket in. It certainly is a maintenance burden. It's a burden when one has to port away from deprecated GLib and WebKit APIs, it's a burden when someone has to tweak the base-classes to accommodate yet another quirky service provider or to just repay some technical debt and clean things up. But it's a burden we can carry as long as we have someone committed to push it forward towards a better future. That future need not be in two months time, but it has to be something that's more realistic than unicorns. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
