[Bug 233078] KAddressbook in KDE 4.4 is not feature-complete

[Kumaran Santhanam]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233078





--- Comment #12 from Kumaran Santhanam <kumaran alumni stanford org>  2010-05-04 16:02:10 ---
I'd like to add to Dotan's point above.  It is impractical for a distribution
to mix and match the address book, since it is an integral part of the Kontact
build.  If it were a separate package, it might be more feasible.  My
instructions for reverting to the 4.3 address book involve manually
substituting a directory in the source tree.

Also, Akonadi still seems to be alpha quality.  There are all sorts of corner
cases that have not been tested.  For example, abrupt loss of access to the
home directory (i.e. via NFS mounts) can cause database corruption, putting
Akonadi in a bad state.  Furthermore, the Akonadi management console has
unpredictable behavior, such as hanging for indeterminate periods of time. 
This is not the kind of software to which users want to trust their precious
personal data.  Akonadi has created more problems that it has solved and really
needs to be stabilized before the entire Kontact suite is committed to it.

Maybe KDE needs to take an odd/even approach to releases like many other open
source projects.  Even releases are feature-complete and stable while odd
releases are advertised as development branches.  That way, distributions can
stay on stable releases, getting necessary bug fixes along the way.

I would have stayed on 4.3 for our users, but unfortunately Fedora stopped with
4.3.2 and skipped to 4.4.0 (now at 4.4.2).  There were bug fixes that users
needed from 4.3.3+, but they were not available to us.  Therefore, we had to
move to 4.4.0+, which introduced this unfortunate situation.  For now, I have
reverted the address book locally, but this is a maintenance overhead that is
too high for most users.

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