[Development] When to remove old platform plugins?

[Eric Wong]

Gunnar,

On Monday, March 12, 2012 11:25 PM, gunnar.sletta at nokia.com wrote:
> On Mar 12, 2012, at 3:35 PM, ext Eric Wong wrote:
>> Please consider to keep linuxfb platform plugin. There are still
>> many devices(e.g ARM9) that have no graphics accelerations at all
>> and there is only single process environment.
> Taking a plugin out of QtBase does not prevent it from flourishing in a playgrounds repo or even in a supported qtlinuxfb repo when a maintainer for it steps up. Right now, the reality is that many of these plugins are not being looked after and they are therefore halfway broken.

Understood that the broken plugin should be removed in the imminent 
alpha stage.
I am not pushing developers to fix the plugin at the moment, but just 
hope to
have it included in final release. Thanks.

Eric