Re: KOffice Split, before or after 2.3 ?

On Wednesday 10 November 2010, Inge Wallin wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 10, 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.
> 
> True.  My mistake.  
> 
> But I still think that removing stuff is perhaps not the most sensitive thing 
> to do.

Leaving unmaintained code in the place where people expect it will only lead to confusion. Besides, we've been through all this already and the maintainers have all already made their choice.

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