Plans for 0.5 / Meeting Summary

[David Edmundson]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:04 PM, David Edmundson <
david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:

> General Overview/News
>
> 1) We're awesome
> 2) 0.3 is already the default in Fedora, making our way into stable.
> There's not been /many/ reports.
> 3) Was nearly pushed into LTS Kubuntu, I told them not to... as 0.4 is
> kinda rubbish.
> 4) George G is back!
>
> Plan for 0.5
>
> 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:
>
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
> Lasath, can I have an update on what message filtering stuff we can get
done in the proposed deadlines?



> 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.
>
>  - Beer fund
>
> It's all gone.
>
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