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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    Re: Randa: GIT migration plan for KDE Multimedia
From:       "ian.monroe () gmail ! com" <ian ! monroe () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-06-03 18:40:31
Message-ID: BANLkTikOhzVB2RoqBCMrayM=LjOoKMW1UQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 13:35, Harald Sitter <sitter@kde.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:18 PM, ian.monroe@gmail.com
> <ian.monroe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:02, Harald Sitter <sitter@kde.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:59 PM, ian.monroe@gmail.com
>>> <ian.monroe@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> What about the idea of combining all the non-applications
>>>> subdirectories into a single project? Would make the dep tree easier,
>>>> and they are all really small anyways.
>>>
>>> That would mean that we need to move unmaintained stuff out of the
>>> repos, thus have to do hardcore fiddeling with the history.
>>
>> Why does it mean that?
>
> Because shipping broken and unmaintained software results in bad
> public perception of KDE and particularly our multimedia apps.

Well I mean, can't we just delete (git rm) the unmaintained software
from my hypothetical combined non-app repo. Or not convert it in the
first place. I don't see how having separate repos changes anything in
regards to this issue.

>>> So we
>>> might as well split proper. It does not make much difference whether
>>> we expand to 5 or 13 repos really.
>>
>> Well people complain a lot, see the latest thread on release-team. I
>> think making the dep tree very simple is a good thing and not hard to
>> do.
>
> It was pointed out by fedora and kubuntu packagers that it makes much
> sense to have kdemm split.

Yea I don't really understand whats going on with that thread.

Ian
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