Bugzilla Cleanup

[Eric]

>I'd like input from the Xfce developers (and other distribution
>maintainers perhaps) on what other components can be closed out
>as WONTFIX (or other if preferred).

Question for everyone, would it be useful on the
https://wiki.xfce.org/people page to list who maintains/has push
rights to which components? This way people know who to poke for
patches and which individual components/plugins/applications need a
maintainer. This is related to the *adopting an orphaned app* (TODO
link) already on the page.

Eric

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Robby Workman <rw at rlworkman.net> wrote:
>> I'm trying to do some cleanup and triaging of bug reports on
>> xfce's bugzilla, and recently I've been looking at old (<2010)
>> reports with the intent of finding out whether they're still
>> valid (and if not, closing them). In the process, I noticed that
>> there are LOTS of bugs for components that are not considered
>> part of Xfce any more (e.g. xfprint4) or are no longer maintained
>> or considered usable (e.g. xfmedia).
>>
> Yeah, still sad to see Xfmedia go. One of the few media players that
> actually made sense to me...
>
> Liviu
>
>
>> I've closed out all of those
>> two component's bugs with WONTFIX and a message indicating why.h
>>
>> I'd like input from the Xfce developers (and other distribution
>> maintainers perhaps) on what other components can be closed out
>> as WONTFIX (or other if preferred).
>>
>> Some that come to mind are:
>>
>>   libxfcegui4 (won't be part of 4.12)
>>   pyxfce (appears to be unmaintained now)
>>   xfc (appears to be unmaintained now)
>>   xfce-installer (no intent to start doing this again, right?)
>>   xfce4-cellmodem-plugin (appears to be unmaintained)
>>     * probably the same for several other goodies, but that
>>       alone doesn't necessarily mean they should be closed out,
>>       I think - some still are in widespread usage
>>   xfce4-icon-theme (will this be staying dead or are there
>>     plans to revive it?)
>>   xfce4-xfapplet-plugin (appears unmaintained, and possibly
>>     irrelevant anyway since GNOME3, but perhaps MATE folks
>>     still want it)
>>
>> To be clear, I'm not suggesting that bugs be closed as WONTFIX
>> *only* because something is unmaintained, but if some component
>> is not maintained, not considered useful these days, and has
>> basically no chance of anyone ever deciding to revive it, it
>> would be nice to get those bugs closed and removed from the
>> list of open reports.
>>
>> On a related note, this would perhaps be a good time for someone
>> with appropriate access to move any such trees to the "archive"
>> directory in git.
>>
>> -RW
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