New module: KPkPass

[Ben Cooksley]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 12:15 AM, Volker Krause <vkrause at kde.org> wrote:
> 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?

Hi Volker,

I would say the original proposal (of it starting off in KDE PIM then
transferring over to Frameworks when the time comes) should be more
than fine.
While packagers will have some versioning issues to deal with, this is
essentially a solved problem as they've had to deal with it already
for KHolidays)

Cheers,
Ben

>
> 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
>