[fab] Re: openmotif

[Christopher Blizzard]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 18:09 +0530, Rahul wrote:
>>> But what is the POINT?  We aren't going to be touching openmotif at all, only 
>>> dropping it, so moving it to Extras makes NO SENSE.  Moving the things that 
>>> depend on it over so that they can be made to work with lesstif makes some 
>>> sense, for those things that we no longer need in core, but moving openmotif 
>>> just to move it is silly.  If we're going to touch openmotif, we're going to 
>>> remove it.  period.  There is ZERO gain to importing it into Extras.  ZERO.
>>>
>> I am repeating myself here but the point is that we never had libraries 
>> in Fedora Core without applications dependent on them and since we are 
>> moving the dependencies  I dont see any reason for openmotif to be a 
>> exception and stay in Fedora Core.  Again the alternative is to drop 
>> openmotif and all its dependencies in both Fedora Core and Fedora Extras 
>> immediately and fix applications to work with lesstif and import them 
>> back again. Think of it and make a decision either way.
> 
> Nobody is asking for openmotif to stay in Core.  It needs to be dropped,
> I think everyone agrees on that so far.  But it needs to be dropped
> completely and not moved to Extras.
> 
> As for the applications that depend on motif, I say we do the following:
> 
> 1) Announce that openmotif will be dropped in X days, weeks.
> 2) Provide information o lesstif as the alternative.
> 3) Maintainers of packages that have motif dependencies have the same X
> days, or weeks to fix their applications to work with lesstif
> 4) Drop openmotif after the time period has elapsed
> 5) Deal with any unfixed packages at that time.

I like this plan a lot.  It sets deadlines and expectations properly. 
openmotif just needs to go away.

So who can make said announcement?

--Chris