[Kde-pim] KContacts, KXMLRPC. Moving forward

[laurent Montel]

Le Monday 10 November 2014 17:45:48 Aleix Pol a écrit :
> Hi,
> I would like to get permission to have these 2 repositories finally split
> into separate repositories and have them promoted as KDE Frameworks.

For me it can be a good idea to start to split it.

> I think these 2 are important because they are blocking other parts of KDE
> from going forward:
> - KXMLRPC: There's a sad fork of it in plasma-workspace so that dr konqi
> can use it. This would solve the issue in time for Plasma 5.2 release and
> also would allow other projects to use it.
> - KContacts (former libkabc): It's a major dependency of KPeople, which is
> ready to be released. KTp is waiting for a KPeople release to embrace it as
> a dependency and KPeople is waiting for KContacts to be released.
> 
> I'm suggesting to only split those two (by grafting, like we did with most
> of kde-runtime, kde-workspace and kdelibs) 

We need to keep git history during split.

Regards

> so that we don't disrupt the
> ongoing development process in kdepim and akonadi, but still we get to
> leverage on the good technologies KDE PIM provided over time by the rest of
> KDE.
> 
> If agreed, I'll do the splitting and stabilization work myself, during this
> week.
> 
> Cheers!
> Aleix
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