KTp roadmap

[David Edmundson]

KDE Telepathy Roadmap

Hey all. The following is a summary of the discussions we had at FOSDEM.
Please comment if I've got something wrong, or if you weren't there.

*0.5.3 release Next week*

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*Soft feature freeze Next week*

(i.e nothing that's not in the planned features list should be started)

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*0.6 release at the end of Q1:*

Things to note:
 - this will have run time optional _UNSTABLE_ kpeople. This will not be on
by default, and we do not encourage distros to package it in their main
repos
 - the API will NOT be considered ABI stable finished

Big Features we want to have:
 - Completely finished model refactor (seems likely, things are going well)
 - Work on making the API as sane as possible, with doxygen documentation
 - merging _all_ of Lasath's plugins, with a message processor API that I'm
happy with (see RB)
 - Call UI with GStreamer 1.0 (gkiagia, could you forward a link to any
up-to-date QtGstreamer discussions)
 - Dan Vratil to relook into SASL handling
 - Less sucky notifications (d_ed to send separate email to the ML)
 - Show unread message icon in Contact List (see d_ed's branch of
contact-list)
 - Approver to handle all types of stream tubes thanks to .desktop files
describing the tubes.

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*0.7 release at the end of Q2:*

Goals:
 - fix all the problems that come up from 0.6 ;)
 - Stable ABI/API for ktp-common-internals.
 - We want to see kdegames and kipi etc. being able to work with KTp.

The intention is to have a very short time between 0.6 and 0.7 with 0.7
just being focussed on stability and not many new features. Just like we
did in 0.4->0.5

Hopefully this can happen in time for 4.11 to include some KTp.
The API will only be "stable" for the KDE 4 releases, we have to break for
Qt5/frameworks anyway.

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*KTp Active when it's ready*

Will be released as a  0.1, _only_ when it is ready. Probably end of summer
2013 it depends on who steps up to take it on.

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Once I've finished the model refactoring I am going to be giving LightDM my
main priority to get this into extragear. Others need to step up to manage
the 0.6 release and make sure it happens in time.

David
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