[Kde-pim] KDEPIM Needs More TIme

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 15 May 2010 12:41:27 Thomas McGuire wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Saturday 15 May 2010 13:26:00 Will Stephenson wrote:
> > On Friday 14 May 2010 14:49:34 Allen Winter wrote:
> > > On Friday 14 May 2010 8:42:21 am Allen Winter wrote:
> > > > Howdy All,
> > > > 
> > > > I regret to inform everyone that kdepim will not be ready for a 4.5
> > > > Beta1 that is scheduled to happen in a few days.
> > > > 
> > > > We estimate an extra month will be needed.
> > > > 
> > > > Unfortunately, the massive porting effort to Akonadi (an even bigger
> > > > job than the Qt3/KDE3 -> Qt4/KDE4 port) is taking longer than we
> > > > anticipated.
> > > 
> > > Forgot to mention that Thomas'  blog has a lot more details.
> > > http://thomasmcguire.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/akonadi-meeting-and-the-k
> > > de -s c-4-5-release
> > 
> > I recommend releasing 4.5 without kdepim as was done with 4.0 and doing
> > an interim kdepim release cycle (call it akonadi tech preview) before
> > 4.6. This gives us a way to soft-launch the major Akonadi ports without
> > the full expectations coupled to being in the SC, and gives us some nice
> > things to talk about between 4.5 and 4.6.
> > 
> > Whatever we do, we're not hurting our downstreams, since 4.5 falls
> > between the major distros' release cycles anyway.  There will be a bit
> > more packaging work during the 4.5 cycle to maintain repos containing SC
> > 4.5 + kdepim 4.4 and SC 4.5 + kdepim ATP, but as a packager I'm ok with
> > that.
> 
> I'd agree with this. I'm against delaying the complete KDE SC 4.5, the
> above sounds like the best.
> We should stick to the 1 month delay plan however, the "ATP" should be
> fully usable for most users.
> 
Does this mean that it will be possible to have KDE SC 4.5 with kdepim 4.4 and 
kdepim ATP parallel installed?  Providing there's no danger of data loss this 
would be ideal from the users' PoV.  Those that understand the deal and choose 
to test would be able to do so, while still having the old one to fall back on 
if things go wrong, and others could stick with 4.4 until the next distro 
release.

Anne
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