Am Dienstag, 11. März 2014, 08:54:11 schrieb Burkhard Lück: > Am Montag, 10. März 2014, 22:54:50 schrieb Albert Astals Cid: > > El Dilluns, 10 de març de 2014, a les 12:36:59, Burkhard Lück va escriure: > > > Am Samstag, 8. März 2014, 22:11:11 schrieb Freek de Kruijf: > > > > One of our translators mentioned kpovmodeler in extragear-graphics. It > > > > seems this package still requires KDE3 stuff and the last development > > > > has > > > > been done 5 years ago. It also is hardly usable anymore because it > > > > calls > > > > an external program, povray, which apparently needs another set of > > > > parameters to function properly. > > > > > > You are right kpovmodeler development in kde svn seems to be dead and it > > > does not build here, but there is apparently some development outside > > > kde > > > repos, see http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=90952&start=15 > > > According to the forum thread there are still users who would like to > > > work > > > with kpovmodeler. > > > > Well, if they want to work with kpovmodeler, someone should contact the > > guy > > that is working on it and tell him to come over and work with us :-) > > I have mailed him yesterday, waiting for a response now. > Now response to my mail nor on the forum thread.
> > > > Hence my question: should it be moved to unmaintained? > > > > > > extragear/graphics has more candidates for this question: > > > > > > kuickshow: > > > no development since > 4 years > > > needs an old no longer available library imlib1 to build > > > no deb packages provided > > > > > > kgrab > > > no development since many years > > > builds and works for me, but apparently it has minor functionality > > > compared > > > to ksnapshot, so I fail to see a need for this application > > > > > > kfax > > > no development since many years > > > builds and works for me with the example fax in the code > > > no deb packages provided > > > Are there still any users of this application? > > > > > > My conclusion: > > > applications which can not be build since a long time should not be in > > > extragear, therefore kuickshow should go to unmaintained and kpovmodeler > > > tp > > > playground, if some wants to develop it otherwise to unmaintained as > > > well > > > > > > kgrab should go to unmaintained > > > > > > I am not sure what to do with kfax > > > > We have the application lifecycle document over in techbase that describes > > this kind of stuff, it's just that noone is janitoring the process so that > > it actually happens. Do you want to do it? > > >From my pov I'd like to file a sysadmin request to move these apps to unmaintained4: kpovmodeler kuickshow kgrab -- Burkhard Lück
