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

[Alex Merry]

On Friday 10 December 2010 12:27:14 Andras Mantia wrote:
> 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.

I would agree entirely.  I use KMail2 daily, but I would not expect most 
people to deal with it.  I have to restart KMail quite regularly just to get 
the "unread mail" count to change, a bug that has existed for several months.  
It's noticably slower than any other email client I've used recently, 
including KMail1.  Virtuoso hammers my HDD for the first 5-10 minutes after I 
log in, and Akonadi seems to have something to do with this.  And occasionally 
I have to restart Akonadi to get it to behave.  And this is for no obvious 
gain as an end user.

KMail2 is absolutely not of release quality, and I honestly can't see that 
changing in the next month.  I would love to help, and I do try here and 
there, but I don't have the time to both learn the large code base (between 
KMail, Akonadi and the various seperated components) and do serious bug fixing.  
And I think the problem is that this is the situation everyone else who would 
be interested in helping is in, as well.

Alex
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