bascht
Tracking issue: Mark client as dead
Hi,
unfortunately we should treat clients who hasn't received any activity for 1-2 years as dead
:skull:
E.g. Pidgin, Jitisi (Chat Client), Candy....
This would prevent people from going for dead client
That could cut the list in half :) Some are not dead, just not very active, like Pidgin, Spark. But this means no official releases only. In their code trackers there is still some activity.
Some projects though are dead dead. Like Miranda (it's page is not loading and everyone is using Miranda-NG now).
Where is Pidgin active?
No, I dont want to delete them, I want to show this :skull: in the third column
2.13.0 was released less than a year ago. Activity is on their Bitbucket repo https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/commits/all I understand that you don't want to delete them. But dead is a harsh tag. Maybe "Inactive" is more suitable.
Like @wrooot mentions – it's hard to really tell whether a project is dead or just dormant. (Except for… say… Adium for example :joy:)
If the project is hosted on Bitbucket / GitHub / GitLab, we could add a link to the projects activity page there and let people make their own judgements. I don't wanna go down the road and list something like "date of latest release" or so, because this would just result in a merge-fest on this issue tracker. :smile_cat:
The famous #40 added the detailed client section, so we could add a individual note there for all the abandoned clients.
What do you think?
I think it is okay to inform the user that "we" as an author think that a client is inactive. Of course, linking to their repo would be good so the users can decided on their own. But as many people just pick without questioning, they often e.g. use Pidgin, which I personally do not recommend. Although XMPP has a quality problem I think. We should be help out by suggesting a little from our experience. Still, no client is taken down as long as there are no obvious reasons.