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.
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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