RFC: Calligra press kit

[Sven Langkamp]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Markus Slopianka <markus.s at kdemail.net>wrote:

> On Mittwoch 07 Dezember 2011 22:54:11 C. Boemann wrote:
> > I think it looks generally very nice. The part about version 3.0 is
> > incorrect however. We plan for at least 2.5 and 2.6 before 3.0 neither of
> > which will include support for new qt or kde. Our release schedule is
> > every 4 months from now on
>
> Well, until Jaroslaw changed it very recently,
>
> http://community.kde.org/index.php?title=Calligra&action=historysubmit&diff=16611&oldid=16017
> said nothing about further 2.x releases. ;-)
>
> Anyhow, Calligra (and KOffice before) isn't really the most successful
> project to keep
> roadmaps and schedules. I don't believe in a 4 months cycle before I see
> it. ;-)
> That said with 2.4 pushed to January, maybe February, even when keeping
> the release cycle,
> 2.6 would be released in September/October which is already months after
> the KF5 release
> in July/August.
>
> The recent thread started by Boudewijn about Qt3Support removal sounded a
> lot like Qt5
> support is coming earlier rather than later with only Kexi being in
> question. (I suggested
> porting the Qt3Support parts required by Kexi to Qt5 but didn't get a
> reply.)
>
> Frankly: No way I believe you telling me about a Qt4-based Calligra 3.0
> release in
> January/February *2013*, roughly a year after Qt4 was EOLed.
> Maybe at some point that was agreed on that schedule but didn't know about
> the Qt5 roadmap
> then.
>
> Boudewijn's thread (with replies also by Cyrille) is definitely the more
> recent
> information. And as Cyrille wrote there: When depending on Qt4, you have
> to do the
> maintenance work for it, too. Somehow I don't think anybody is interested
> in that...
>
> Well, my document doesn't need to be finished now. If a clear roadmap for
> 2012 hasn't been
> decided until a few days before the 2.4 release, the outlook part can also
> be removed.
> It's nice to have but non-vital.
>

Even if KF 5 is released in summer 2012, it won't be in major distributions
before october.

I think the most important thing that we learned from the KDE 4 porting
it's that you better start late with the porting. That means that I
wouldn't start porting before KDE SC 5.0 is released. Otherwise it just
wasting time following a moving target. I think for now it's more important
to work towards becoming completely ready, than jumping into another port.
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