On 03/31/2015 05:32 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Mon, 30.03.15 20:35, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson (johan...@gmail.com) wrote:
Heyja
Should this not be dropped and *DE write,integrate/implement an graphical
frontend to systemd for themselves?
It's not like this is receiving the love it needs, hence I'm pretty sure
nobody is using this.
It's already "dropped": we split it out of the main git repo for a
while. Now it is its own repo, slowly bitrotting away. I wouldn't
package it the way it is right now, but this is really up to the
packagers. I mean, it's incomplete, out of date and really buggy, but
I don't care too much if people use it anyway...
Then you should not care too much if we properly take it out of it's
misery and deliver it's final notice since it's always better to delete
and or archive with a notice that relevant bits are unmaintained and
they exists only for historic and or educational purposes than to simply
split it out of the main git repo for it to die it's slow and miserably
bit rotting death and somehow expect people to magically figure that out.
The former sends a clear cut messages that those bits should not be in
circulation and exist only for historic or education purposes and it can
be forked and maintained elsewhere while the latter leaves it open to
interpretation with an end result of wasting peoples contributed time (
package reviewers,releng, qa, reporters and eventually upstream
community when that circle completes ) and reflect badly on the bits
upstream community ( end user frustration, bad reviews, bad rep on set
maintainers etc ) since someone will always get the bright idea of
packaging the bit rotters and ship it in their distribution which leads
to the previous mentioned end result.
So even if you dont care, you should remember ifplugd and it's longevity
in Fedora with the relevant TCE for the project after you had
effectively seized to maintain it.
JBG
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