Notes from Frameworks5 Promo BoF at Akademy

[Jos Poortvliet]

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Kevin Ottens <ervin+bluesystems at kde.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 August 2013 14:03:54 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
>> On Wednesday 31 July 2013 12:54:53 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
>> > Heya,
>> >
>> > I know it's late and perhaps somebody already send these, but if not, here
>> > they are: the notes of the Frameworks5Communication BoF at Akademy 2013.
>> >
>> > I will just link to the notes, as that's the easiest for all - and it can
>> > be edited with further insights.
>> > https://notes.kde.org/p/Frameworks5Communication
>> >
>> > Something I'd like to highlight is the proposal I made to try and release
>> > one or two parts of Frameworks as soon as we can (without giving in on
>> > quality) as a 'teaser' for people. It would help tremendously with
>> > building
>> > up excitement around Frameworks 5 and in garnering interest and perhaps
>> > even help from the Qt community. It was suggested that Treadweaver and
>> > Karchive might be ready for a 1.0 (5.0?) in December.
>> >
>> > This does of course influence scheduling, and the added request to have a
>> > good status overview of the various modules probably adds to that.
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>>
>> I have not seen any replies to this. Can and should we do an early release
>> of one or more modules? If so, which, when, how? KDE Promo would then have
>> to prepare this - we can and should make a big bang with this.
>
> Well I got the feeling you answered to that in your own email already. :-)
>
> Targets for early releases are KArchive and ThreadWeaver in december. If Alex
> feels like it we could add Solid to this list I think... but that'd require a
> bit push on the Windows and Mac support, would make a splash though.

Ok, if it's determined that KArchive and ThreadWeaver will be released
by then, we can start preparing.

Cheers,
J

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