Please consider package removal or adding developers

[Moritz Naumann]

While I have no reason to doubt that Руаньяк (Roignac) and the remaining active indicator-weather team are doing their very best to fix some of the many critical bugs in this package, the situation he described in August seems to prolong:
https://lists.launchpad.net/weather-indicator-team/msg00096.html

Currently, and for at least the past year, from a Natty and Oneiric user perspective, this package is not usable. On two different AMD64 systems I have here, it crashes after a few hours maximum, and by then it has already failed to indicate the weather.

Unless there is a good chance that people who can fix the more serious bugs are able to contribute to this project and bring it into a state which will allow for an acceptable end user experience (which has not happened for the past year), I suggest to consider removal of this package off Ubuntu for the reasons provided above.

This will then result in loss of functionality in Ubuntu, and one which many users seems to be already missing now. So if the step to remove this package is taken it would be good to consider alternatives.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sam_ (and-sam)]

Since Oneiric and now still in Precise ther're all kinds of crashes without user interaction reoccuring - unsolved.
Precise as LTS shouldn't provide such a buggy app for five years.

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

Adding Andrew Starr-B as most recent uploaded. Andrew could you make a decision on this?

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

I saw this when it was first reported, but didn't comment at the time as I'm conflicted about it. The user experience is obviously not ideal as there are frequent crashes. Yet, these crashes don't really fall under the category of "RC buggy." There is no risk of data loss, no security issues are introduced, the problems are contained to the program, and do not lead to an unusable system. There is also no regression potential as all these issues exist in 11.10 as well.

My personal experience has been that once a day or so (usually coming back from suspend) it crashes and I simply re-add it without issue. And, honestly, there's a lot of stuff in universe that is a lot more broken. The reason it receives such a high volume of bug reports is that it is being used by many people. It provides functionality that used to be built into the default desktop and AFAICT is not available elsewhere in the archive. I, and many other users, will continue to use this despite the many issues.

The vast majority of these crashes happen when interacting with libdbusmenu. Maybe a DBus menu developer might be able to provide some guidance to indicator-weather upstream?

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Another possible option is developing vala+python version (3.0) which
doesn't seem to crash so frequently.

Package removal won't solve any issue - indicator-weather is not in
default Ubuntu installation, so it is up to users to decide should
this software live on their desktop.

'Adding developers' would be great, but I don't see much enthusiasm
from community.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for indicator-weather (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]