[Kde-pim] kdepim-plasma

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Friday, November 28, 2014 13:40:14 Sandro Knauß wrote:
> > * if users begin using the Qt5 port early and we change the storage
> > engine,
> > they will have to migrate twice, and the second time will be the tricky
> > one
> > (data migration and/or re-sync). It would be nice to avoid the
> > multiple-false- starts that plagued KDE PIM 4.x and pretty well ruined its
> > reputation for many.
> 
> well my feeling is that, if we release a Qt5 version soonlish, than the
> bugs  that got introduced by the trasistion to Qt5 can be found soonish
> too. And now i think we have early adaptors, that are not so upset if
> something is not working very nice. 

Moreover, the Plasma team does a lot of integration and testing work. We'd 
really iron out bugs quite quickly, and we're eager to see them fixed. This 
momentum could be very useful for KDEPIM.

> If we wait till the next akonadi thing
> is ready, than users got the qt5 transistion bugs + bugs from the
> transistion. And on the other hand there are many parts of kdepim to not
> depend at akonadi at all - so we hold back much improvments in thesse parts
> for a long time. We should not make the same error while switching to Qt4
> and push the release of the new version further ans further behind. I think
> a new thing like "akonadi next" needs time one year, two or three we can't
> tell when it ready and more or less feature complete. To have the time to
> figure out how well "akonadi next" is working, it is the best not to have
> the presure, to release a version as soon as possible, becaue everthing is
> waiting for this missing bit - I really concern that we will release
> "akonadi next" too early and than user hate us again. And maybe "akonadi
> next" is super but we made a big regression on the transistion to qt5 and
> the users hat "akonadi next" for something complete unreleated thing...

Very understandable concerns IMO.
-- 
sebas

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