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Subject: General Application Cleanup
From: Urs Wolfer <uwolfer () kde ! org>
Date: 2007-04-23 11:38:55
Message-ID: 200704231338.58058.uwolfer () kde ! org
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Hi all
In order to keep our quality, we should do a general application cleanup over
all modules before the KDE 4.0 release. We have a lot of unmaintained
applications that are horribly broken, apps that have a small userbase or
apps that are to specific to keep them in a mainmodule.
Points for cleanup decisions:
* Is the app well maintained?
* Is the app in a good shape? If not, was it in a good shape in KDE 3 times?
* Are there a lot of issues on b.k.o? Check how often issues are reported.
When has the last issue been reported? If there are less open issues, but the
app is not in a really good shape, this means the app has a small usebase.
* If it is an app with a small userbase, is it in a good shape? If it is, we
can probably move it to extragear.
* Does that app duplicate functions with another app form a mainmodule?
We should decide which applications we are going to drop as soon as possible.
When alpha / beta releases are out, people are going to test apps and will
open bug reports for these apps. This time would be unnecessary lost...
My proposal: Every module release maintainer should go over the codebase and
decide with the helping points above. For modules without a maintainer,
everyone is free for doing this work. Before dropping anything, he should
send a conclusion to this list. If we would do it on a more public list, we
will get endless discussions (see the "Move KSirc to extragear" discussion).
The module release maintainer should also inform the last known maintainer /
developer. It there are no hard objections on this list, he can drop an app
after one weeks time (and add it on our blackhole list [1]).
Bye
urs
[1] http://techbase.kde.org/Blackhole
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