Notes from Frameworks5 Promo BoF at Akademy

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 08 August 2013, Kevin Ottens 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.

Whatever would be released early, will need also a release of extra-cmake-
modules.
I'd like to do that as soon as possible, Stephen objected to that. I don't 
know what he thinks about this currently.

Alex