Re: Time to move GGV to the Attic? (Was: Subversion migration recap (cut-off Friday July 14th))

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 17:41 +0200, Petr Tomasek wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:20:51AM -0400, Kevin Kubasik wrote:
> > I think that's more an issue with envice than if we should retire the
> > ggv module. ggv development is more or less dead (near as I can tell)
> > and envice is its replacement. If there are features that you want to
> > see Incorporated into envice, I would recommend filing a bug.
> > 
> > Here is the CIA Stats for ggv
> > http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/gnome/ggv
> > 
> > You will notice that the last change to any actual code was May 10th,
> > 2005 and you have to go back significantly before that to find active
> > feature development. If the ggv module owner wants to keep it active,
> > then I guess that's all cool, but barring someone for the ggv devel
> > team speaking up, I would say attic time...
> > 
> 
> GGV just works. Evince sucks. So you want to drop ggv just
> because it is "actively developed"?

That's constructive. GGV hasn't seen a single code change in a year, and
is unmaintained.

Feel free to pick up GGV and revive it, that's why we're moving it to
the archive repo, and not running "rm -rf" on it.

In the meanwhile, please vent your frustration in some other way. I'm
sure filing bugs against Evince would help for example.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> 
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