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

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2007 schrieb Thomas McGuire:
> 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.

Not that I have much to say anymore in kdepim decisions (plus, I don't have 
*any* experience with kdepim 4.0 lately, so I have no idea of the real state 
of the affairs), but: One of the selling points of korganizer is the 
groupware-via-dimap resource (which I also rely on for all my job 
appointments, plus some other associations). If kmail is not included, I 
don't think it is wise to ship korganizer with the dimap resource dropped (so 
that existing users suddenly are left out in the cold...). I doubt that 
distributions would support both korganizer 3.x and 4.x, so the users would 
suddenly have no groupware any more...

But as I said, I have no idea about how good korganizer 4.0 really is, I'm 
just arguing from the outside as a korganizer user.

Cheers,
Reinhold

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Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
email: reinhold at kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
 * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/
 * K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org, KOrganizer maintainer
 * Chorvereinigung "Jung-Wien", http://www.jung-wien.at/
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