kdelibs splitting: on hold

[Kevin Ottens]

Hello mechanics[*],

Just a quick email to let you know that everyone should consider the kdelibs 
splitting tasks on hold. I edited the wiki page accordyingly, but I thought 
it'd be welcome to also email about that move:
http://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Epics/Splitting_kdelibs

The reasoning is that this splitting effort mainly stalled for two reasons a) 
not enough effort put into it (like other areas nothing new) and b) we reached 
the point of splits touching the core of kdeui.

It turns out that the work down during Platform 11 to find the right places to 
split was excellent regarding kdecore but way too partial for kdeui. So most 
of the splits that should have been started since June got harder than 
necessary (there's a couple of exceptions of course) because of unsolved 
business in kdeui.

That's why the splitting is officially on hold now, we need to get the hard 
point of kdeui out of the way first, which will require cleanups in kdeui and 
upstreaming some features to Qt. I collected the relevant tasks in the 
existing wiki pages for those topics:
http://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Epics/kdelibs_cleanups
http://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Epics/Qt_5.1_Merging

Please everyone focus on those, they are overall easier tasks and more 
efficient to get us closer to our goal at that point.

Thanks for your attention.

Regards.

[*] Yes, I'm still experimenting with the "people in team" name. :-)
Auto mechanics being the craftsman able to work on the chassis (framework) of 
your car... How does it sound?
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

Sponsored by BlueSystems and KDAB to work on KDE Frameworks
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