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[Erdem Uney <erdemuney@xxxxxxxxx>]

This could be at least understandable if you had a roadmap for version 8
and you have announced it like a year ago not 10 days before the release of
v8.

Thank you Camptocamp at first creating and now supporting it.

Regards,
Erdem


On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Joël Grand-Guillaume <
joel.grandguillaume@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +1 For Nicolas's opinion here. I think it's fair in an open source project
> to at least give the community / partner one version to convert their work
> by deprecating something. Please, do not just remove that module for v8.0.
> You already dropped audittrail, project long term and some others.
>
> If I perfectly understand all the reasons that motivate you to drop them
> (trust me;), it's the editor's duty to announce, deprecate and then only
> drop something. If you're not doing so, how can we as partners / community
> rely on you ?
>
> Thanks for your understanding.
>
>
> See you in june !
>
> Joël
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Nicolas Bessi <
> nicolas.bessi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello Anthony,
>>
>> I will just quote you:
>>
>> """
>> Here is my plan:
>>
>> v8:
>>
>> we keep "server/report" and "report_webkit" unchanged, but every report in
>> our addons are converted to qweb.
>>
>> v9:
>>
>> we remove "server/report" and "report_webkit" from our repository, "
>> report_webkit" will be moved to a community repo (like we do for every
>> deprecated module).
>>
>> """
>>
>> It is a normal release cycle to deprate then to remove, even in
>> OpenSource.
>> Such abruts abandon of addons may not entrust people with your partner
>> contract/guarantee...
>>
>> I also think some PR where made on branche 7 if I'm correct.
>>
>> As I said previously, I was was my self not against abandonning totally
>> report_webkit if we can convert all our work to qweb report.
>> But doing so will take the community some time to do it.
>>
>> Now, if you really do not want to maintain it and the question is just
>> rethoric, Camptocamp/community will maintain the module.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Nicolas
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2014-05-21 5:25 GMT+02:00 Erdem Uney <erdemuney@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> Thank you for asking.
>>>
>>> Weren't you the one who said about a month ago that you will support
>>> report_webkit through v8 and drop both rml and report_webkit in v9?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Erdem
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:36 AM, Antony Lesuisse <al@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would like to remove report_webkit from our master branch before
>>>> releasing v8.
>>>>
>>>> I think we wont maintain it properly and i expect that this will create
>>>> frustrations during the lifetime of v8.
>>>>
>>>> None of our modules use it at all (none ever did actually). Now that
>>>> the conversion from rml to qweb/wkhtml report is done, i consider that the
>>>> default report system of v8 is superior to report_webkit.
>>>>
>>>> It has all the advantages like the speed and html/css syntax, but it's
>>>> much more modular and versatile. It supports as many layout as you want,
>>>> images and view inheritance. The codebase is also smaller.
>>>>
>>>> report_webkit was a source inspiration when we developed the v8 pdf
>>>> report generation. And i would like to thanks its author Nicolas Bessi.
>>>>
>>>> On github we already have 2 pull requests (PR) about it, i dont want my
>>>> developers to spend time on code that is not used at all by any addons.
>>>>
>>>> So report_webkit PR's will stay unprocessed and i dont think the module
>>>> deserve that.
>>>>
>>>> Would oca be motivated enough to take over the module to ensure proper
>>>> maintenance.
>>>>
>>>> Antony Lesuisse.
>>>>
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