On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 12:35 PM, David Edmundson <da...@davidedmundson.co.uk > wrote:
> Valorie spent some time at Akademy telling me about some other person she > knows who uses the project. It might not be active, but it isn't all doom > and gloom either. > I'm not saying it's doom and gloom or even that it doesn't work anymore, I'm just saying it's unmaintained and most of the parts around it are also unmaintained. I don't know if KDE has any policies about releasing and shipping unmaintained software, so I just wanted the release team to be aware. That is all. > > We do have two semi-active developers; Alexandr(Kaffiene) and James. > > You've been actively blocking anything from James for over a year. I know > he's very difficult to work with, but amongst his distributed-presence > monstrosity he is also fixing things including going through the bugs. > > (for context for others, you get a complex patch, you ask a question about > something and you just get a bigger patch with more and more unrelated > changes in it with zero description. No matter what you type, this > continues forever. I think it's a language problem). He isn't bad though - > the fact that he's kept uploading them despite the frustration shows some > willpower. > I did block his patches because they went the exact opposite from where I wanted the project to go, as a maintainer. I have told him exactly what I want those patches to turn into, he would always ignore what I said. I have even asked him to take over the project and do whatever. Sorry, if someone's unwilling to collaborate on a project in the least bit, even participate in a decent discussion, yes, I will not accept such contributions, even more so if I as a maintainer don't agree with them. I mean, that's what maintainers are for. I don't think it's a language problem at all. KDE is built upon collaboration after all. > Upstream is mixed. Kaffiene's work on Telegram is pretty good. > > As for KAccounts. It's been a huge setup since it went in. > I don't think I've ever managed. It's one of 2 things (the kpeople port > being the other) that killed me working on the project. > > Thinking positively we do have two options for the latter. > - We can restore my original ktp-accounts-kcm, it would be a fairly > simple job, the code is still there and the original auth handler still > works. > - we modify my ktp-bootstrap file to fetch and build them. > Well, KAccounts just works™, it's just unmaintained too. Cheers -- Martin Klapetek