I was looking into updating the README files with respect to non-
historical branding references to KDE/KDE3. So as to not
incorrectly update historical references, updating those files
probably is a file-by-file project. There are 966 README files and
that basically stopped my motivation for updating the files.
Further, there are 287 AUTHORS files, 275 ChangeL|log, 298
COPYING*, 173 INSTALL, 116 NEWS, 7 PACKAGING, 11 RELEASE*, and 366
TODO.
I suspect many --- possibly most --- of these text files provide
little to no value anymore. The AUTHORS files are redundant of the
Trinity About dialogs, likely all of the change log files have not
been updated since several releases before 3.5.10 and certainly
have not been updated in the Trinity era, the COPYING* files are
redundant to almost all *.cpp files, the INSTALL files are
irrelevant at best, the NEWS files all are outdated, PACKAGING
files obsolete, RELEASE files obsolete. There might be a handful of
useful ideas in some of the TODO files, but likely they could be
consolidated into a wiki page or bugzilla enhancement requests ---
not that we have the available personnel to accomodate most of
those wish list items.
Should we delete most of these text files?
Comments?
Darrell
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