On Sun, Dec 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]> wrote: > > I ended up in https://invent.kde.org/system/xwaylandvideobridge the other day > and I was wondering "Why was this archived?". > > Most of our stuff gets archived because "It's old and no one cares", but that > means that if someone cares we would not mind unarchiving it. > > Some other things (like let's say KF5 only frameworks and possibly this > xwaylandvideobridge) are archived because better technologies exist. > > I think it would be good if from now on we added a small note in the readme > explaining why the project was archived and if there's possibility of > unarchiving it. > > What do you think >
Yes, it's definitely a good idea. Especially since the archived state isn't mirrored on GitHub and that's where a lot of people look up our projects. I wouldn't say that xwaylandvideobridge has a replacement, but even the "nobody is working on this anymore" case (which affects that project too) is good enough to document. Maybe some boilerplate for standard reasons so that if people are interested in contributing/reviving it, they are given a pathway to do so too? > Cheers, > Albert > > P.S: And ideally also for all the ones we have archived but i know that's a > lot of work, so this only if someone wants to do it. > If someone wants to work backward through this, that would be helpful. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!
