[Kde-pim] Request to exclude KMail from the KDE 4.0 release

[Andrew Mason]

Is it possible to make KDE-PIM, like Koffice, it's own seperate entity ?
That way in X no of months / after kde 4.0 has shipped, KDE-PIM could
release their new version. THat way distro's would have to support the
old korganizer etc...until the new one is ready.



On 12/8/07, Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 December 2007, Thomas McGuire wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > OK, here is my offical request to keep KMail out of the KDE 4.0
> > release. There are too many things badly broken (see list below), and
> > there is only me and some occasional contributers working on KMail
> > for trunk.
> > I definitly don't have the time to fix these problems myself, even
> > though we have another month until KDE 4.0 is released.
> >
> > I stronly oppose releasing KMail in the current state, because of the
> > grave problems (like mail loss) it has. It would ruin its reputation
> > and the users would be rightfully angry and disappointed.
> >
> > So please, exclude KMail from the release.
> > Can this be done when tagging the release (or release canidates)?
> >
> > The question then is of course what to do with Kontact, as KMail is
> > one of its most important components.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> Thomas, thanks for all the work you have put into KMail and you'll
> hopefully continue to put into it. Without you KMail probably wouldn't
> even start in KDE 4. It's sad that despite all your efforts and those
> of many other developers KMail still isn't where all of us have hoped
> it to be. You have made the right decision. Stability and reliability
> are of utmost importance for KDE PIM in general and KMail in particular
> because data-loss is absolutely unacceptable.
>
> I wished I could help, but real life is just too demanding. :-(
>
>
> Regards,
> Ingo
>
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