Hi, there various KTP modules have seen very little development over the last years. Most of the activity that did happen was either release housekeeping stuff like version bumps or general code cleanup (i.e. the kind of cleanup that some people do across the whole KDE codebase and not necessarily out of a genuine interest in KTP). There is also no significant activity around it on bugs.kde.org.
While certainly amazing in its vision it anecdotally never fully made use of that potential, partly because it's just trying to solve a problem that is really hard to solve. Most of the activity I see around KTP is from people trying to use it out of curiosity but finding it broken/unpolished or not what they expected it to be. We like to say that "Everything in KDE Gear is maintained". I'd argue that from this follows that if it isn't actually maintained we should drop it from the Gear releases. We are doing our users a disservice by pretending something is maintained when it actually isn't. We are also doing ourselves a disservice since unpolished software "leaking" into the desktop experience is going to make the whole product appear unpolished. Furthermore, with the transition to Qt6 very soon now we should make a decision: Either we invest a non-trivial amount of work into making it work against Qt6/KF6, or we pronounce it dead. Having it "alive" but unported isn't helping anyone in the long term. Therefore I propose that we stop releasing the various ktp- modules with KDE Gear and archive the repositories after the last relevant KDE Gear cycle finished. Cheers Nico
