Re: Deprecated Modules (as per minutes of the 2009-08-03 meeting)

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

Am Dienstag, den 10.08.2010, 15:53 +0200 schrieb Tobias Mueller:
> So following our decision I propose the following actions:
> 	• Write to d-d-l (and gnome-hackers?) that we are about to get
> 	  rid of the bugs and that we will close them with the status
> 	  whiteboard entry "obsolete-module-2010". And let them know
> 	  that if anybody cares (i.e. distros), they should get the
> 	  data soonish.

This again brings up the question how to handle deprecated and dead
modules in upstream (e.g. gnome-vfs) that are still shipped (and
fixed/"maintained") in long-term support downstream distributions.
Maybe we (err... any volunteer?) should ask on distributor-list@ if
there are ideas/plans how to handle this.

> 	• Wait 14 days
> 	• Optional: Mark module so that it does not accept any news bugs
> 	• Mark bugs as NEEDINFO with the following text;
This module is
> 	  obsolete by now. Please check whether this bug is still valid
>  	  against the module that obsoleted this one.

How are we talking to in this text? The reporter?
"Please check" requires technical knowledge, and at least for low level
libraries I can imagine that many reports were moved there by a triager
or developer from the original application that the reporter had filed
the report (incorrectly) against.
Hence I have doubts that this will work out in case of staying vague
("the module that obsoleted this one"), plus it might create quite some
confusion for modules that simply have no successor.

> 	• Close as OBSOLETE with the status whiteboard set to
> 	  "obsolete-module-2010".
> 	• Wait >2 weeks
> 	• Delete the module from bugzilla
> 
> The last point is debatable. But for now, I don't feel bad about
> deleting them. I don't feel that there is much history to be preserved
> in keeping the (empty and inactive) module around.

But the module is not empty if you have closed its bug reports as
OBSOLETE.
So you want to delete bug reports? I think that is a bad idea.



> http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/DeprecatedModules

On a related note, a list of modules in GNOME Bugzilla with the Result
being either "0" or "∞" for
  New entries filed in last 2 years
divided by
  Marked as RESOLVED WONTFIX/FIXED in the last two years.

Note that this list is error-prone as the filter criteria also makes it
contain newly created modules, but it might be interesting as another
data source for potentially abandonned modules (maybe combined with git
activity that I could also offer :-P ).

acme
at-poke
audiofile
banter
battfink
bigboard
bonobo-activation%20[was:%20oaf]
bookworm
bounties
buoh
camorama
clutter-box2dmm
clutter-gstreamermm
clutter-gtkmm
cluttermm_tutorial
cluttermm
Coaster
contacts
crescendo
criawips
dashboard
dates
desktop-file-utils
Divifund
DrWright
eazel-hacking
eazel-themes
eazel-tools
eggcups
elysium-download
encompass
etherterm
evolution-scalix
firestarter
fontilus
gade
GAL
galf
gASQL
GCDMaster
gcm
gconfmm
gDesklets
geglmm
gerd
get2gnow
Gfax
gget
GGV
gimp-perl
gimp-tiny-fu
glabels
glade--
glimmer
gmc
gmdns
gnet
gnome-audio
gnome-chess
gnome-core
gnome-db
gnome-debug
gnome-file-selector
gnome-guile
gnome-iconedit
gnome-jabber
gnome-libs
gnome-lokkit
gnome-menu-editor
gnome-mime-data
gnome-network
gnome-pim
gnome-pm
gnome-themes-extras
gnome-vfs-extras
gnome-vfsmm
Gnomoku
Gnomoradio
gnomovision
gnopernicus
gnorpm
goocanvasmm
gopersist
gpdf
gperfmeter
gphoto
gprocview
grapevine
gstreamermm-plugins-good
gtetrinet
gtk-css-engine
gtk+
gtkglarea
gtkmozedit
gtkvts
gtop
gturing
Guikachu
Guppi
imlib1
jamboree
lampadas
libart
libelysium
libgdamm
libglademm
libgnetwork
libgnomecanvasmm
libgnomedbmm
libgnomemm
libgnomesu
libgnomeuimm
libgtcpsocket
libpanelappletmm
libpanelmm
libpdb
libsexy
libsigc++
libvtemm
libxml
libxml++
libzvt
linc
lsr
magicdev
marlin
mcatalog
medusa
Metatheme
monkeybeans2
nautilus-rpm
nautilus-vcs
nemo
netapplet
online-desktop
optimystic
orbit-cpp
orbit-perl
ORBit
pkg-config
present
printman
Pyphany
pyspi
pywebkitgtk
RadioActive
reinteract
Release%20Engineering
Removable%20Media%20Manager
resapplet
sapwood
scaffold
serpentine
SEWFOX
Silky
stick2xyz
straw
tasks
tepache
test
themus
ToutDoux
tubesock
update-manager
webeyes
xalf
xine-lib
xscreensaver
yarrr
zapping


That's it.

andre
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