From kde-release-team Fri Apr 18 15:32:53 2008 From: "Friedrich W. H. Kossebau" Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:32:53 +0000 To: kde-release-team Subject: kdeutils cleanup Message-Id: <200804181732.54495.kossebau () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-release-team&m=120853286630485 Hi, as the coordinator for the modul kdeutils I tried to get an overview about what is in there. Following are my findings, which call for some action and, before that, your comments, please: A) Working AFAIK, with reconfirmed maintainer: * Ark - Archiving tool (not yet confirmed, but was maintained by Henrique Pinto for 4.0, so I am optimistic it still is) * KCalc - scientific calculator * KGpg - graphical GPG frontend * kjots - manages several "books" with a subject and notes * Okteta - binary file editor * SuperKaramba - version of Karamba with python scripting Fine, no problems here. B) Working to great parts AFAIK, but without a maintainer: * kcharselect - select special characters from any fonts and put them into the clipboard (applet variant still needs porting to plasma) * kdessh - front end to ssh * kdiskfree - like 'df', a graphical free disk space viewer (+kwikdisk) * kfloppy - format a floppy disks with this program * ktimer - execute programs after some time * kwallet - KDE wallet management tool * sweeper - cleans unwanted traces the user leaves on the system These programs got ported by our main v3->v4 porters and some, but then noone really cares for them. I guess at least for the privacy and security related programs KWallet and Sweeper we should try to find dedicated maintainers. KFloppy and kcharselect would be sad to loose, too. The rest would be not that critical to loose, but still: KDF might get kicked to kdebase/something and become merged with the partition info module, the other functionality (un-/mounting partitions) might already be served by some plasmoid(?). KTimer might have a small user community and could be turned into a plasmoid, e.g. merged with a tea timer or some other clock functionality. Of what use is kdessh? C) Not working/not compiled and without maintainer: * klaptopdaemon - battery and power management, including KControl plugins * kdelirc - frontend for the Linux Infrared Remote Control system * kmilo - kded module to support various types of hardware input devices * ksim - plugin based system monitor I have no clue what these four submodules do exactly. I suppose that ksim is obsoleted by solid+some plasmoids. KDELirc and klaptopdaemon look like they should better end in Solid and kdebase/workspace/kcontrol/. kmilo might be a candidate for that, too? I guess we agree that every program should have some kind of active maintainer, some people who feel responsible for it and have sufficient knowledge about it, if it is included in a KDE module. So I would like to make a public call for maintainers for the programs listed as unmaintained above. And given that May 19th is Hard Feature Freeze, I would move all programs which will not find an active maintainer until May 1st to tags/unmaintained/4. Where should the call be done? dot.kde.org, commit-digest or/and kde-devel? What would be the effect to promotion (look, they loose maintainers, not future-proof)? Your input please. Thanks Friedirch _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team