KTp roadmap

[Rohan Garg]

Yeah, I can understand if this could be tight for you, but I just
wanted to let everyone know that Kubuntu hits feature freeze on 7th
March [1] and that it'd be far easier to get a beta in before that and
then push the final release on the 30th into the archive than upload a
completely new release a couple of weeks before the Kubuntu release (
More paperwork for me to file and less time to QA the packages ).

Regards
Rohan Garg

[1] https://wiki.kubuntu.org/RaringRingtail/ReleaseSchedule

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:20 PM, David Edmundson
<david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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