[Kde-pim] Re: Do we need a Beta3?

[Gaël Beaudoin]

Le vendredi 10 décembre 2010 11:27:14, Andras Mantia a écrit :
> Allen Winter wrote:
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > Should I ask the Release Team to insert a third beta into the release
> > schedule. The current schedule calls for the next tagging on 21 Dec to be
> > a Release Candidate.
> > 
> > If desired, I could ask for a 2 week extension of the schedule and we
> > would call the 21 Dec tagging Beta3.
> 
> Having an extension for the beta time by itself will not help. If nobody
> fixes bugs, they won't go away. If developers cannot find time to work on
> kdepim, that's fine, but in this case we should consider of not releasing
> kdepim together with 4.6.0. I wish we could, but releasing in its current
> state will do more harm than good, as there are obvious shortcomings both
> in migration (very important!) and daily usage.
> 
> Andras
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As a user and KDE advocate, I completly agree. I've installed 4.6 beta 1 and 
while it's miles ahead of what was in 4.5, I've reverted to 4.4.x for KDEPIM.

I've reported several bugs [1], most of which are rather grave IMO, none of 
them have been fixed or commented by a developer (If I'm not wrong). This is 
no criticism, this to say : well, it's getting really better, but I really 
think you need to wait some more months before releasing the akonadi based 
kdepim and let developer do their magic. I've tried to keep using it, but the 
multiple current annoyances and bugs make it really hard.

Having to regularly restart akonadi by hand, having the computer slow due to 
virtuoso/nepomul indexing, impossibility to delete some emails, others not 
shown, etc, is really hard to cope with.

On the other hand, the 4.4.x branch is rock stable and pleasant to use.
Consider giving it more time to mature.

Gaël

[1]
https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=kmail2&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailreporter1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=gaboo%40gaboo.org&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=
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