From kde-release-team Thu Dec 27 23:08:03 2007 From: "Friedrich W. H. Kossebau" Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:08:03 +0000 To: kde-release-team Subject: Re: kdeutils maintainer? khexedit program unmaintained Message-Id: <200712280008.04131.friedrich.w.h () kossebau ! de> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-release-team&m=119935413327075 Hi, sorry, could not push this discussion lately. So once again: Am Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2007, um 00:23 Uhr, schrieb Friedrich W. H. Kossebau: > Hi Allen, > > Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2007, um 23:11 Uhr, schrieb Allen Winter: > > On Friday 30 November 2007 22:12:21 Allen Winter wrote: > > > On Friday 30 November 2007 14:34:51 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > from > > > > http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.0_Module_Status#Module_Statu > > > >s I read there is no Release Maintainer for kdeutils. So who > > > > decides/cares there? I guess this list, then. > > > > > > The Release Team, so I'll copy this over to our mailing list. > > Alright, am subscribed there, too. > > > > > With KHexEdit currently there is a tricky situation. Under > > > > kdeutils/khexedit live two separate projects, the program KHexEdit > > > > and the binary editor plugin (see the subdirs core, gui, parts), > > > > project name Okteta*. I personally only care for Okteta, but not for > > > > the program (see footnote why). > > > > > > > > Right now KHexEdit is roughly ported and runs, but is not fully > > > > functional (painting draws outside of PaintEvent, view tabs running > > > > wild and crash the program, html/rtf export not working). So not > > > > really in release state (yet). Two solutions: > > > > 1. Exclude from release and hope for me getting Okteta ready for the > > > > next one. 2. Search maintainer and fix KHexEdit. > > > > > > > > I favour #1 (one program to rule things, no conflicts ;) But I > > > > understand those who like #2 more, just tell me what you think. > > > > In case most like #2 more I would blog and mail a maintainer query to > > > > Danny for inclusion in the digest. > > > > > > > > So? > > > > > > > > * Both projects share no code, as the plugin was written from > > > > scratch. Instead of modifying KHexEdit to make use of the libs, I > > > > decided to write a program also from scratch, using the libs. I am > > > > only halfway done, see playground/utils/okteta. Bookmarks, Undo, and > > > > embedded search dialog are still missing to match KHexEdit's > > > > features, but else looks good. > > > > > > > > Friedrich > > > > > > If khexedit (the application) is truly terrible and unmaintained then > > > we shouldn't release it. We should remove khexedit from kdeutils and > > > plan on Okteta for 4.1. In the meantime, Okteta should be developed in > > > playground. > > > IOW: I agree with option 1. > > > > > > This is the same plan we are following for KAider replacing KBabel. > > Did someone besides me try KHexEdit? I might be wrong with my impression > and biased (well, the latter I am for sure ;). > > > So should I add a kdeutils table to the Module Status page > > saying that khexedit will be removed for 4.0 and that > > okteta will be new in 4.1?? > > > > Freidrich: I assume you will be happy to do the khexedit move to > > unmaintained/4? > > Not happy (heh, this is killing/removing a program which is around since > 1999), but I would do. > > As the Okteta libs and KParts living in subdirs of KHexEdit (core/, gui/ > and parts/) are maintained, by me, I would keep them there, just moving the > files in the toplevel dir (and pics) which belong to the KHexEdit program. > The parts are implementing the modul interfaces from > kdelibs/interfaces/khexedit/, which are used at least by KPilot and > KDevelop (http://lxr.kde.org/ident?i=BytesEditInterface). > > I guess renaming kdeutils/khexedit/ to kdeutils/okteta after that would > match the content left in there, but it would make too many people unhappy, > that close to a release, right? Too sad. > Moving to extragear, to follow the path of KAider, right now would be > similar complicated... > > I would svn mv kdeutils/khexedit/* -N (or similar) to where exactly? Ah, you meant /tags/unmaintained/4/, now that I searched for it I found it. So, did anyone else test KHexEdit and is there a decision that I should move the program? Friedrich _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team