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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KOffice Split, before or after 2.3 ?
From:       todd rme <toddrme2178 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-11-11 15:45:46
Message-ID: AANLkTimvOX_GeAqB7vjB=uicmxY7PdvfpkEVk4HF7goD () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Thomas Zander <zander@kde.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 10. November 2010 09.53.32 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>> On Wednesday 10 November 2010, Inge Wallin wrote:
>> > This is not for us to decide. We have forked, we should not destroy
>> > what's left. Let the people who will continue working on the old branch
>> > do what they like.
>> >
>> > A case could perhaps be made for applications like Krita where the
>> > maintainer and the developer group has decided to move rather than fork,
>> > but let's not touch the other apps.
>>
>> We are not forking, we are _splitting_. KOffice splits in two groups, and
>> either side is free to _fork_ the applications that remain on the other
>> side. But initially, Group A will just be KWord, Group B will be the rest,
>> plus a fork of KWord.
>
> This is not the case; I think I stated this some time ago but It can be
> restated.
> both Kexi and Krita are too big to be without maintainer and thus they can be
> removed. The f-office app is not too interesting outside of N900 users and can be
> removed too.
>
> Anything else. This includes the plugins, the libraries, the filters and last,
> the applications, should not be removed from svn.
>
> If anyone has any issue with this please put your issues on the table and we
> can work out how to proceed.
>
> Thanks

People have already given a reason to remove them: to avoid confusion.
 This seems like a valid reason to me, and I haven't seen anyone
provide a good reason not to remove them.  If you have a good reason
to keep them, it would probably be helpful to provide it.

-Todd
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