[Digikam-devel] Prepare the future : merging digiKam and DigikamImagePlugins

[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Thursday 01 March 2007 schrieb Arnd Baecker:
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Fabien wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I guess that when you will start to port digiKam to QT4, there will be a
> >   feature freeze for around 1 year, the time to change the source code
> > and to stabilize the new version, isn't it ?
>
> If this would really freeze feature additions for one year,
> I would also like to add a few wishes before that ;-)
> (OTOH, Gilles is so fast, so maybe the freeze would much shorter ;-0)
>
As someone who can (probably) not contribute to this migration I still would 
like to inject my opinion. A 1 year feature freeze will put-off everyone, 
first you, the developers, and than our users. It's too long a stretch of 
time.

We should ask for help (even if we might not get any, 
because everyone active is in the same busy boat), and cut it into pieces like 
that:
- As Gilles proposed, convert the libraries first
- then the digikam core
- add features when deemed juicy to qt3 at any time, interrupting migration
- migrate the plugins one by one
- migrate kipis, and there export at first (here we have other developers)

I also think that experience and know-how with migration will grow rapidly 
everywhere, in particular in amarok which has to deal with threading as much 
as we have to. With the result that it will not take 1 year. I definitely 
hope so.

Gerhard
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