Re: Proposal: Archive all unported Qt5 projects

On Wed, Jun 3, 2026 at 1:03 AM Nicolas Fella <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Qt6/KF6 has been around long enough that most KDE projects have been
> ported to it. Qt5 is increasing degrees of dead, and any project not
> ported to Qt6 is likely equally dead.
>
> With that in mind I propose that we declare unmaintained and archive all
> KDE projects that still don't build with Qt6 (unless there's signs of
> active development or they are otherwise relevant).
>
> In particular this would apply to the following projects:
>
> Never released:
> khipu
> kde-nomodeset
> kije
> kirogi
> tikzkit
> pikasso
> kdev-css
> kdev-embedded
> kdev-executebrowser
> kdev-krazy2
> kdev-mercurial
> kdev-ruby
> kdev-upload
> kdev-verapp
> kdev-xdebug
> samba-mounter
> polkit-kde-kcmodules-1
>
> No release in a long time:
> libqgit2
> kdb
> kproperty
> kreport
> kexi
> kalternatives
>
> Formerly part of KDE Gear:
> cervisia
>
> I have excluded Okteta and latte-dock since there is recent activity.
>
> Any thoughts/concerns on this?
>

All of those with the exception of Kirogi can be archived without issue
from my perspective.

From what I understand Eike has plans with Kirogi.

Feel free to file a ticket after another day or so and i'll carry out the
archival of the above.


>
> Cheers
>
> Nico
>

Cheers,
Ben