[Development] Requesting removal of qtjsondb

[Jeremy]

On 5September2014, at 21:57, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 18 September 2014 21:46:27 Jeremy wrote:
>> I don’t see an issue with removing it from Qt 5. Is there a general plan for
>> modules that exit from production-ready status?
> 
> Modules that exit from production-ready status need to go through the 
> deprecation ladder: first Done, then Deprecated (with possibly a replacement), 
> and then finally Removed. The package should be made to compile with future 
> versions of Qt. That's what we did for Qt Script Classic, Qt Assistant ADP, 
> QHttp, QFtp, etc.
> 
> However, let's be clear: QtJsondb never achieved "production-ready" status. It 
> never left "pre-alpha" state and was never released. There's no one using it. 
> Simply remove the link from qt5.git and leave the repo to rot.
> 

It’s the repo hosted on qt-project.org and clones such as qt.gitorious.org that I’m wondering about. Leaving qtjsondb at its current URL is not what I would expect for something that is not part of the Qt 5 bundle. Do we start a qt-abandoned tree? qtplayground is too optimistic.