https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455994
Bug ID: 455994
Summary: kdialog README needs updated (is kdialog currently
maintained?)
Product: kdialog
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Other
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: br...@frogmouth.net
Reporter: 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net
Target Milestone: ---
Is kdialog maintained any longer? Bugs are assigned to bradh@ (not kde,
frogmouth, but avoiding full address for spam control for not logged in) but
his last commit to the repo seems to have been in 2006 (!!), and the last bug
he commented on on bugzi (find his comments on any bug, sort by bug ID) was one
he filed in 2011, during the port to kde4 (!).
The README seems to be rather dated too, with multiple issues:
1) Tutorial link is still http and is dated:
http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Shell_Scripting_with_KDE_Dialogs
... which says it has moved (but doesn't redirect) to (https this time):
https://develop.kde.org/deploy/kdialog/
2) README says for functionality changes/adds, contact bradh@, but ...
3) It also says current maintainer David Faure (faure@), who is at least
reasonably currently active, but git log says last faure commit to kdialog was
mid 2020, the only recently closed kdialog bugs seem to have been closed by
others (often the original filer), no real activity there, and that's not where
the bugzilla assignments are going.
Further, at least the --slider option isn't documented in the tutorial, and
mandatory arguments (presumably min/max/increment, are not documented in the
--help output. Further, there seems to be no kdialog handbook entry to look
at and no manpage (which would be nice for a scriptable like kdialog). That's
bug #427414, but it illustrates the lack of maintenance.
And the kdialog_progress_helper binary seems entirely undocumented. No --help
output, no mention in the README or tutorial (which demonstrates --progressbar
without the helper), no manpage or handbook... Bug #450015 but another
illustration of missing maintenance.
kdialog does seem to be kept building and working, and seems to be a native
wayland app at least, but beyond that, any actual maintenance, or is it
effectively abandonware that's only kept minimally working by others? (I do
see montel@ added Qt6 CI support with 8236e4711 back on May 24, so at least
there's hints of continued life support into qt6, but that's still minimal life
support even if continued, not proper maintenance.)
Version: kdialog along with plasma and frameworks on git master (using
gentoo/kde's overlay live ebuilds), but git master is not listed as a version
option. (Tho I've not updated in a bit over a week, but given the time points
and lack of maintainer bug activity above, status is unlikely to have changed
in that time.)
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