KTp roadmap

[David Edmundson]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Rohan Garg <rohan16garg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Would it be possible to do a Beta release before 7th March? That way I
> can ensure I can get KDE Telepathy in before the final 13.04 release
> for Kubuntu.
> www.launchpad.net/~rohangarg
>

So that means making a release within 5 days of the hard feature
freeze. In about 3 weeks.

We've never done a beta before, but it may be time to start. It would
give everyone time to sort out the packaging changes.

Do we list all the new features when we make a beta and promo it? It
makes the release a lot more boring as everyone would know everything,
but it'd help us get an influx of developers  for the most difficult
part of development.

I'm not sure, it's pushing things tight.

Thoughts?

>
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:43 PM, David Edmundson
> <david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:43 PM, David Edmundson
>> <david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>> =============
>>>
>>> Soft feature freeze Next week
>>>
>>> (i.e nothing that's not in the planned features list should be started)
>>>
>>> =============
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> =============
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> ============
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> =============
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>> Soft freeze:  NOW
>>
>> Hard feature freeze: 2nd March
>>
>> String Freeze: 16th March
>>
>> Release: 30th March
>>
>> Release Party: always
>>
>>
>> If a feature is not completely ready stable and merged by the hard
>> feature freeze, it will not enter 0.6.
>> We decided 0.7 won't be as far away, so it won't be a huuge deal.
>>
>> David Edmundson
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