Plans for 0.5 / Meeting Summary

[David Edmundson]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Martin Klapetek
<martin.klapetek at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:04 PM, David Edmundson <
> david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> General Overview/News
>>
>
> What's with the font?
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>> 1) We're awesome
>>
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> Totally.
>
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>> 2) 0.3 is already the default in Fedora, making our way into stable.
>> There's not been /many/ reports.
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> 0.4 is also packaged for f17. Their bugzilla is also a bit less
> user-friendly imo, so we have only ~3 bugs reported directly and 9 crashes
> through fedora crash report tool (all one crash, fixed in 0.4). I also
> became the official co-maintainer of KTp in fedora, so we have more direct
> control over stuff there (not that it was bad or anything, fedora-kde team
> is amazingly awesome).
>
>
>> 3) Was nearly pushed into LTS Kubuntu, I told them not to... as 0.4 is
>> kinda rubbish.
>>
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> Good move.
>
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>> 4) George G is back!
>>
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> \o/
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>>
>> Plan for 0.5
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>> Focus is purely on improving 0.4. No huge changes, but we need to break
>> quite a few parts which can't be backported. 0.5 will feature as the
>> default in the next Kubuntu. Kubuntu has a very very large userbase, so we
>> want to set a good impression as possible. Release schedule is based around
>> Kubuntu, but also works nicely in Fedora Report all minor bugs and fix them
>> as such.
>>
>
>> Please check the TODO list:
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>>
>> https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=144283&query_format=advanced&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&target_milestone=0.4.1&target_milestone=0.4-next&target_milestone=0.5-next&product=telepathy
>>
>
> I'm fairly certain that we won't have the CL plasmoid taking all place in
> a panel in 0.5 (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301323) as it's
> missing in Plasma, so soonest will be after 4.10 is out (January).
>
>
>>
>> Please especially check the 0.5-next milestones. I want all new features
>> assigned by the end of the soft feature freeze. If you don't think you can
>> do something - don't have it in the milestone. If I've missed something
>> (and I probably have) please add it.
>>
>
> Are we including the global presence breakdown in 0.5?
>

unless you have a genius idea all of a sudden, no. It will probably have
knock-on effects, and I don't want that.



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>> To re-iterate the milestone plans when the hard feature freeze hits. All
>> features from 0.5.next are removed leaving only bugs. I make a new
>> milestone 0.5.0, and all bugs we target fixing in the first release of 0.5
>> get re-milestoned here. Bugs we can accept in 0.5.0 stay in 0.5-next.
>>
>> Release Schedule
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>
> The font is making me mad.
>

Sorry.


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>> Soft Feature freeze - 11/7/2012
>> Hard Feature freeze - 1/8/2012
>> String Freeze - 10/8/2012
>> Release - 17/8/2012
>>
>> It's a very short string freeze, but there shouldn't be many new ones. If
>> we email them up-front hopefully it won't be a problem. I'll also try and
>> get someone to review our translations up front so we don't have the mess
>> we had with 0.4.
>>
>> What will 0.6 be?
>>
>> Properly mental. We seem to have taken up even numbers are full of crazy
>> new stuff and take a while. odd numbers are super stable and awesome.
>>
>>
>> Other important meeting topics:
>>  - Given we don't support IRC very well should we officially support it?
>>
>> General consensus was "no, we don't support IRC", it's a different usage
>> and in order to have a semi-decent IRC experience we need to add a lot more
>> that we simply don't have resources to do. It's a better user experience to
>> learn how to use a different app than to try using this.
>> Any bug opened about IRC should be closed with "use
>> Konversation/Quassel", and we will hide it in the accounts KCM.
>>
>> We do, however, need to improve our support for jabber conference rooms
>> which has a lot of overlap, so as this gets better we will revisit this
>> decision in a year (next Akademy) and see if things have changed.
>>
>>  - Web accounts
>>
>> All web accounts are being consolidated into one KCM. Alex Fiestas is in
>> charge of this. There's currently working code that nicely sets up Gmail
>> and Facebook accounts, but this is being complicated into something far
>> more complicated.
>>
>> We should make sure our KCM library can be used by Alex, and work with
>> him, but I don't see us dropping the Accounts KCM anytime soon.
>>
>>  - PIMO Person stuff
>>
>> Vishesh was running round excitedly about this. He can explain this
>> better than me. Poke him until he does.
>
>
> I can as well.
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>
>>
>>  - Beer fund
>>
>> It's all gone
>>
>
> Time for second round!
>
> --
> Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
>
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