[Kde-pim] Venting

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Thursday 08 February 2007 22:05, Allen Winter wrote:
> I'm discouraged.

Courage, young Luke.

> Nearly everything I tried  today in a kdepim+ application is broken
> or causes a crash.  Ok, just Kontact, KMail, and KOrganizer.
> KAlarm worked fine.  KAddressbook worked too.

This suggests mostly -- to me at least -- that 3.5.6 came out under time 
pressure and the current maintainers (are there any?) of applications aren't 
integrated enough in the release process. Are the people who did new feature 
development in PIM+ still on board? Looking at SVN log I see some activity by 
Oral Timocin, but most of it is sound & fury by vR and myself.

> + New To-do editor -> has a start year thousands of years in the future

I'll look into that one, at least. Sounds like a missing initialization. Has 
this not been reported to the developer of that feature?

> + KMail Templates need a lot more work (and documentation) than we
>     found during testing

Documentation, especially. Here it may be feasible to push the users who use 
the feature to document it.

> And then there's the never ending stream of kdepim-bugs.

That is a lot more discouraging than I would have thought, too. Lots of bugs 
come by, and then what .. I see Bram and Phil doing some triage, but not much 
real response (it's hard to *have* a real response with so many bugs coming 
in, I know developers would like to code too, not just respond to reports). 
Is there a way we can tackle some of the bugs in a coordinated fashion?

-- 
These are your friends - Adem
    GPG: FEA2 A3FE Adriaan de Groot
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