[Kde-pim] PIM Sprint report: Akonadi Next

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Thursday, November 27, 2014 13:20:20 John Layt wrote:
> On 27 November 2014 at 12:41, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > judge the situation is the value and nature PIM data in Plasma 5. How
> > > critical is it to its users? What are the target integration points?
> > > That
> > > information would be highly useful in helping plans come together that
> > > suit
> > > everyone.
> > 
> > on top of my head:
> > * calendar: holidays (libkholidays)
> 
> That's the easiest one to resolve: it currently has no Akonadi
> resource, and never will simply because it can't. Plasma accesses it
> directly via a DataEngine.
> 
> My plan for KHolidays under KF5 is to do a straight port and quick
> release as soon as it's split from kdepimlibs, then put it into
> maintenance mode which will require minimal effort. In fact I have a
> branch here with a bunch of commits that is almost ready, and I had
> planned to finalise that at the sprint which I missed.
> 
> So question is: what do I do with that branch? Do I push to
> kdepimlibs/frameworks or kdepimlibs/dev or where? When will kdepimlibs
> be split? Or will it ever be split now in a 'reasonable' timeframe for
> KHolidays to be useful to Plasma 5? Can we just split off KHolidays on
> its own?

If you're comfortable with the code, go for it. (frameworks branch sounds 
sensible, but others may know better). You're the maintainer (and your 
proposal sounds reasonable).

Aleix had started splitting out some bits, it's pending

- a plan how to go about splitting
- the resulting repos should retain history, which his approach doesn't

Maybe KHolidays can be taken in the same go?

-- 
sebas

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