Re: KDE4/Qt4 removal from openSUSE Factory

On 29/03/2019 17.56, Wolfgang Bauer wrote:
> Am Freitag, 29. März 2019, 10:37:25 schrieb Anton Aylward:
>>> But Amarok is a huge project, and too few people are actively working on
>>> it
>>> (as usual...).
>>
>> Maybe that tells us something.
>> Why are so few people working on it?
>> Is it not just that it is huge but that it is complicated and obscure and
>> not easy to comprehend and become familiar enough to work on?  I haven't
>> looked at the source of Amarok but I have for a few other projects and it
>> made me wonder about the mind of the creator.  I was always taught to
>> design and program with maintainability in mind.
> 
> I don't know the source code in details either, nor do I have insight into the 
> project.
> But I don't think this is actually the case here.
> 
> Rather that parts of it had to be rewritten basically from scratch.
> (you probably could argue now that that's because of bad decisions in the 
> past, but that won't change anything about the current state either, and I 
> don't think that was actually forseeable)

I'd argue that KDE5/Qt5 is not compatible with KDE4/Qt4 if applications
have to be rewritten.


> Also, some (most?) old developers stopped working on it, due to lack of time 
> e.g.
> 
> Remember, this is about an open source project where people are working on it 
> in their spare time, without getting paid.
> 
> That of course also means that everybody who wants to can easily join in and 
> help/contribute though.
> 
> Not really the topic of this mailinglist though, Amarok is not developed by 
> openSUSE (nor is any other software that's going to be dropped).

I know. But it is openSUSE users who suffer the final fallout. I know,
there is no solution, not blaming anyone here. Just venting steam.

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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