Re: Qt/KDE team news
[Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed and per Debian ML policy didn't request to be CCed.] Dear Ana, Ana Guerrero schrieb am 19.04.2011 13:45: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:49:52PM +0200, Kai Wasserbäch wrote: […] I'd start the series with a post about dhmk and getting rid of Qt3 in a few days […] We are not getting rid of Qt3, we are giving up to adoption. This should be done via a mail to debian-devel@ although you can of course blog after that! we – as a team – get rid of it. That it was going to be given up for adoption was clear to me, even though I agree, that my initial wording wasn't clear on this. And I never intended to replace the official announcement (O: mail) to debian-devel. I thought of it more as a wider-audience heads-up, maybe even reaching some upstream developers of (scientific) applications and getting them to switch to Qt4. I am planning to do a blog post about the kdelibs removal once arts is out with some numbers. But it won't be in the next 2 weeks. If you already blog about (all) this, no need for me to do it too. I was just missing some semi-regular KDE/Qt news on p.d.o to give the KDE/Qt stuff some more visibility. But since Lisandro already pointed out, that you do/did these kind of things, I'll defer to you. Let me know, by when you would need the piece about dhmk to be included in your post and I see what I can do. Kind regards, Kai Wasserbäch -- E-Mail: cu...@debian.org IRC: Curan Jabber: dri...@debianforum.de URL: http://wiki.debian.org/C%C3%B9ran GnuPG: 0xE1DE59D2 0600 96CE F3C8 E733 E5B6 1587 A309 D76C E1DE 59D2 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kde-talk
Re: kdelibs3 removal and Qt3 orphaning
Dear Ana, Ana Guerrero schrieb am 10.04.2011 11:09: The next step is Qt3 orphaning. The removal of Qt3 from the archive before Wheezy, assuming a release in ~2 years, seems complicated: - there are a lot of scientific software using it, not always packaged into Debian, and they would have a problem if we remove it from Wheezy. - personally, I have been convinced leaving Qt3 around is not so dangerous as leaving kdelibs3. And seems like a good idea as long as I am not a Qt3 maintainer :D So, what we do now? Before doing a final upload orphaning it, I am more inclined to email debian-devel@ and do a call for new maintainers. If in 2 weeks after the call nobody steps up, we do a QA upload orphaning and doing the last changes we want done [1], and if it gets maintainer, we ask them to do those changes in their adopting upload. didn't we have an announcement already, where all the science team people cropped up and said we can't drop it? Didn't they offer back then to take over if the KDE/Qt maintainers dropped it? Can't rememeber this clearly and I'm just in the middle of setting up a new notebook so I might not have all e-mails around. Anyway, if so, then a normal orphan e-mail to the BTS with the usual copy to -devel should be enough IMHO. Kind regards, Kai Wasserbäch -- E-Mail: cu...@debian.org IRC: Curan Jabber: dri...@debianforum.de URL: http://wiki.debian.org/C%C3%B9ran GnuPG: 0xE1DE59D2 0600 96CE F3C8 E733 E5B6 1587 A309 D76C E1DE 59D2 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kde-talk
