Re: Seeking Qt port maintainer or Qt removal

Christopher Seawood wrote:
> Roland Mainz wrote:
> 
>> There aren't much changes required to get the Qt port working again,
>> there are only two major changes which are easy to fix (if someone has
>> Qt installed).
> 
> 
> Compiling != working port.  I'm looking beyond just getting the Qt port 
> compiling again.  I'm looking for someone to "own" this port; to be the 
> "go to" person, so to speak.   Qt bugs have had a tendency to bounce off 
> of either Browser-General and/or Build Config and then disappear into 
> some other component where they rot because the Qt port isn't a priority 
> for those component owners.  So obviously, there should be someone for 
> whom the Qt port *is* a priority otherwise I'm not seeing the point of 
> having the code in the tree.  We need to get better at purging code from 
> the tree that regularly breaks every few months due to neglect and isn't 
> discovered until a significant time period after the bustage occurred.
> 
> Ideally, the maintainer would be someone that builds & tests the Qt port 
> regularly.  They should make sure that the port actually implemented a 
> full set of features, not just stubs, that would make the port a 
> reasonable alternative to the other toolkit ports (gtk, gtk2 & xlib). If 
> the Qt port doesn't implement a comparable set of features that the 
> other ports do, then what's the point of keeping it around?
> 
>> Is there a BugZilla-bug like "Seeking new owner for the Qt-port" yet ?
> 
> 
> Nope.  As we do not have any toolkit specific components, I don't see 
> the point in filing a bug about this issue.  Well, short of one to 
> remove the code.
> 
> - cls
> 

there are interested parties in n.p.m.qt, whether anyone wants to 
maintain I don't know, I'd be happy to be able to build it at least once

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