On 02.08.2017 17:52, Martin Klapetek wrote:
Hey guys,
I was long thinking about writing this email but kept putting it off,
but I think it's only fair towards everyone, especially our users so
here it goes finally.
The KDE Telepathy project is as of now unmaintained for over
a year. That means there is no active development nor bugfixes
except a few occasional patches from an uncooperative guy.
Nobody is handling the incoming bugs. The protocol support is
outdated, the KAccounts project is unmaintained (including the
upstream), I'm not sure about the upstream Telepathy project
but my guess is that it's also not in active development anymore
either.
As the last maintainer of KDE Telepathy and KAccounts, I feel like
we're doing our users a disservice by shipping such outdated and
unmaintained software. Therefore I'd like to recommend to stop
shipping KDE Telepathy (all the ktp-* packages) as part of KDE
Applications, if just to not give the impression that this is still being
developed.
But I'd like to leave it at that - a recommendation from the previous
maintainer. If you guys still think it's worth being shipped, it's ok if you
continue so. I just wanted you to be aware of the state of the project
that we ship as our main IM solution.
Cheers
--
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
Looking at the bug tracker, we receive some bugs for KAccounts, but
virtually none for other KTP components. Either nobody uses those (in
this case I have no objections for your proposal), or they work fine,
which means I see no reason to stop shipping them.
Note that we have literally hundreds of "unmaintained" modules,
including many games and edu apps in KDE Applications. Our general
policy is to move them out only when they are no longer buildable or
usable, and nobody steps up to fix that.
Christoph
