On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 07:51:59AM +0000, Neal Gompa wrote:
[snip]
My position as the KDE SIG lead based on discussions within the SIG
is
that re-introducing these packages in the main distribution would
destroy the main point of our efforts: driving KDE Plasma Wayland to
be the best and most complete experience. The signal of dropping
Plasma X11 largely drove a lot of improvements in Plasma 6 very
quickly that I do not believe would have otherwise occurred.
[snip]
The consensus from the KDE SIG is that we believe that reintroducing
the packages into the distribution will not only unwind a major part
of the approved Change, but it will add complications for the SIG for
shipping updates to KDE Plasma on the cadence that we typically do and
we would rather the X11 packages stay in COPR.
All of what you wrote (in the snipped parts too) is true. But we have
to take into account that there is a bunch of people who want to work
on the alternate approach. It's their right and we shouldn't _force_
obsolescence of older software, especially if it still has users.
The sitatation with X11 is complicated: many people report that it
still works better for them (whatever the reasons may be).
So I think that it's fine to say "KDE SIG, go ahead, do your thing
without waiting for X11", but it's not fine to say "we will forbid having
KDE-X11 packages in Fedora".
Zbyszek