[systemd-devel] Drop systemd-ui

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 03/31/2015 05:32 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Mon, 30.03.15 20:35, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson (johannbg at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> Heyja
>>
>> Should this not be dropped and *DE write,integrate/implement an graphical
>> frontend to systemd for themselves?
>>
>> It's not like this is receiving the love it needs, hence I'm pretty sure
>> nobody is using this.
> It's already "dropped": we split it out of the main git repo for a
> while. Now it is its own repo, slowly bitrotting away. I wouldn't
> package it the way it is right now, but this is really up to the
> packagers. I mean, it's incomplete, out of date and really buggy, but
> I don't care too much if people use it anyway...
>

Then you should not care too much if we properly take it out of it's 
misery and deliver it's final notice since it's always better to delete 
and or archive with a notice that relevant bits are unmaintained and 
they exists only for historic and or educational purposes than to simply 
split it out of the main git repo for it to die it's slow and miserably 
bit rotting death and somehow expect people to magically figure that out.

The former sends a clear cut messages that those bits should not be in 
circulation and exist only for historic or education purposes and it can 
be forked and maintained elsewhere while the latter leaves it open to 
interpretation with an end result of wasting peoples contributed time ( 
package reviewers,releng, qa, reporters and eventually upstream 
community when that circle completes ) and reflect badly on the bits 
upstream community ( end user frustration, bad reviews, bad rep on set 
maintainers etc ) since someone will always get the bright idea of 
packaging the bit rotters and ship it in their distribution which leads 
to the previous mentioned end result.

So even if you dont care, you should remember ifplugd and it's longevity 
in Fedora with the relevant TCE for the project after you had 
effectively seized to maintain it.

JBG