On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek <stan...@kde.org> wrote: > On 11 January 2015 at 00:00, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote: >> El Dissabte, 10 de gener de 2015, a les 23:37:30, Rick Timmis va escriure: >>> Hi >>> >>> Text idea below >>> >>> On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 23:13:20 +0100, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> >>> >>> wrote: >>> > El Dissabte, 10 de gener de 2015, a les 22:56:06, Boudewijn Rempt va >>> > >>> > escriure: >>> >> On Sat, 10 Jan 2015, Albert Astals Cid wrote: >>> >> > Some of them like kword and koffice are already in unmaintained and >>> >> > closed >>> >> > for bugs, not much more we can do with them other than deleting them >>> >> > which i'm not sure it's a good idea. >>> >> >>> >> Close the bugs as "unmaintained"? There's no reason to keep bugs open >>> >>> for >>> >>> >> dead projects. >>> > >>> > In an ideal world you'd have biliions of bug triagers that would go >>> > through >>> > all the open bugs and move the ones that still exist to calligra for >>> > example >>> > (meaning i think there's still some sense to keep them there) >>> > >>> >> > Others like kftpgrabber may be either suggested for new people to >>> >>> adopt >>> >>> >> > them and if not moved to unmaintained. >>> >> >>> >> I don't believe in that -- asking for maintainers never works. It's >>> >> vanishingly rare that an unmaintained project gets a new lease of life, >>> >> and it never happens if there's no maintainer around anymore to answer >>> >> questions. >>> > >>> > I don't believe in things you belieave and vice-versa ;) >>> > >>> >> > I guess we should also be really careful, as you said some software >>> >>> is >>> >>> >> > "done" and the fact that it didn't get any development doesn't mean >>> >>> it >>> >>> >> > should be killed. >>> >> >>> >> Of course. But kmail (not kmail2) is _dead_. It's bugs should be >>> >>> closed. >>> >>> >> It's silly to see it cluttering up bugzilla's weekly top-twenty stats. >>> > >>> > Same as before, ideally we'd have someone going over the bugs and >>> >>> deciding >>> >>> > what still happens and what still not and move over to kmail2. >>> > >>> > Now one way of doing this is crowdsourcing it to the reporters via a >>> >>> nice >>> >>> > bug >>> > closing email for every of the unmaintained bugs/apps. >>> > >>> > In one hand it always pisses me a bit off when that happens (i.e. i >>> > reported a >>> > bug and the only acknowledgement i get is years later saying that it was >>> > >>> > against an unmaintained version that i should re-check), in the other if >>> > >>> > someone is able to write a nice text it may not be so bad. >>> >>> I like this idea... possible text >> >> It's nice. We would need another version for those bugs that belong to >> products that have other products the bug may apply to, say kmail -> kmail2, >> kword -> calligrawords, etc. > > When Calligra appeared bugs have been copied from KOffice for > duplicated apps -- IIRC. Or not?
I believe bugs were duplicated - at least to a certain extent. Not sure on the specifics of what was done here though. Thanks, Ben > > > -- > regards, Jaroslaw Staniek > > KDE: > : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators > : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org > Calligra Suite: > : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org > Kexi: > : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi > Qt Certified Specialist: > : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek > _______________________________________________ > kde-community mailing list > kde-community@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
