New module: KPkPass

[Volker Krause]

Thanks for the input, but what's the conclusion here now? There's arguments 
for and against pretty much all the rules and approaches in here, so I'm a bit 
lost. Can I execute the original proposal?

On Monday, 19 March 2018 18:04:51 CET Volker Krause wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the below request for adding a new module to KDE PIM for the 18.08 release
> resulted in some questions about the rules for new modules, as I ended up
> facing the following conflicting constraints:
> 
> (1) We do not do "direct-to-frameworks" releases, ie. new modules should be
> battle-tested elsewhere before moving to KF5.
> 
> (2) We do not do releases from playground, and following that, no released
> module can depend on playground modules.
> 
> (3) Module moves have to be avoided where possible, ie. they should only be
> done to fix stuff, not as a planned evolution of a module.
> 
> Do all these rules actually exist, or are some of them myths? :)  In
> particular (3) was new to me.
> 
> If all three rules are valid, how do I solve the scenario outlined below
> then?
> 
> Thanks!
> Volker
> 
> On Sunday, 18 March 2018 09:55:27 CET Volker Krause wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > in order to make the travel/itinerary code started in kdepim-addons
> > accessible for the corresponding mobile app too, I'm currently moving the
> > shared parts to separate repos/modules.
> > 
> > The first one ready to go is KPkPass (see kde:kpkpass.git), a library for
> > reading Apple Wallet pass files, the de facto standard file format for
> > mobile boarding passes. No rocket science in there, just parsing the file
> > (essentially a zip file containing a JSON file, message catalogs and image
> > assets) and making it consumable by Grantlee and QML for display.
> > 
> > I'd suggest to include this in the next PIM release (after 18.04 branching
> > has been done), with the longer term goal to become a tier 2 framework
> > once
> > it has been battle-tested as part of one or two PIM releases. This would
> > then become a dependency of kdepim-addons, for the pkpass messageviewer
> > plugin.
> > 
> > I'm also working on a similar split for the itinerary data model and
> > extraction code (currently in scratch/vkrause/kitinerary).
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Volker

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