[Kde-pim] KDEPIM Needs More TIme

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Saturday 15 May 2010, 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-kde -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.

It seems all of us agree with this. (I withdraw my earlier proposal as 
it just causes unnecessary work.)


> We should stick to the 1 month delay plan however, the "ATP" should
> be fully usable for most users.

Even if you really think so (because it works for you, a single user), 
please don't sell the ATP as the production-ready product. As KDE SC 4.0 
has demonstrated people will anyway jump on it and then complain that 
it's not production-ready. We just have to make this clear from the 
beginning so that people (and the press) understand what the ATP is.


Regards,
Ingo
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