On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote:
> El dimecres, 2 d’agost de 2017, a les 18:44:17 CEST, Christoph Feck va > escriure: > > 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 outdated, the KAccounts project is unmaintained (including the 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 we're doing our users a disservice by shipping such outdated and 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. > > Agreed, it doesn't seem to be "horribly broken", so shipping it for those > that > still use it makes sense imho. > Fine with me then, as I said in the previous email - I didn't know if KDE has any policies for shipping unmaintained apps and I just wanted the release team to be aware, especially given I went through the effort of getting KDE Telepathy into KDE Applications releases in the first place, I kinda felt it's my duty to at least inform you. Cheers -- Martin Klapetek