KF5 current status

[Stephen Kelly]

Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

> On Friday, December 2, 2011 14:46:36 Stephen Kelly wrote:
>> I thought it would be useful to have some statement of the status of KF5
>> ahead of the meeting at the weekend. I think I have a pretty good
>> overview of what is happening across the board.
> 
> that would be great; do you want to blog this and/or send it to k-c-d and
> kde- devel? 

I'm afraid I don't have time. It would be awesome for you to spread it a bit 
and encourage others to add to it.

> i can echo-chamber it on my blog ...
> 
>> http://community.kde.org/KDE_Core/Strategy_and_Policies
> 
> awesome....
> 
>> * Find out how to get more collaborators. The frameworks effort is moving
>> very slowly. There are very few people actively working on it. Part of
>> that may be residual thinking that frameworks is not relevant yet (the
>> stuff Aaron keeps bringing up), and part of it may be people not knowing
>> what tasks they can do.
> 
> i think it's both: not enough focus (yet) and not knowing how to
> contribute.
> 
> add to that that we have no timeframe for development, so there is no
> sense of urgency pushing people to work on things. deadlines can be a
> fantastic motivator for some :)

A great reason to enumerate what is needed in Qt 5.0.0. Can some of that be 
gleaned from the monster spreadsheet from Randa?

> 
> it's all compounded by the fact that working on libs that no apps are
> using yet has less instant gratification.
> 

Personally I find it gratifying, but I can appreciate that I'm a bit odd in 
that... :)