[kdepim-users] Fwd: [Kde-pim] KDE PIM 4.1 Plans

[Ingo Klöcker]

Hi everybody,

below you'll find our plans for KDE PIM in KDE 4.1. Contrary to what I 
have been hoping for (and what I have been saying more than once) the 
KDE PIM applications will not be ported to Akonadi in KDE 4.1. I hope 
you are still looking forward to the first KDE 4 based release of KDE 
PIM.

Regards,
Ingo

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Subject: [Kde-pim] KDE PIM 4.1 Plans
Date: Saturday 02 February 2008
From: Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>
To: KDE PIM <kde-pim at kde.org>

We had a discussion about the plans for KDE PIM in KDE 4.1 at the 
Osnabrueck meeting and came up with the following:

KDE 4.1 will be released in July, feature freeze is end of April. This 
will include KDE PIM as the first KDE 4 based release of KDE PIM. We 
plan to include the following features:

- Stable release of all applications (including Kontact, KMail, 
KOrganizer, KAddressbook, and all the other KDE PIM apps) ported to
KDE 4
- Applications will still use the KResources framework
- Merge of all the features of the enterprise branch
- Initial release of the Windows and Mac OS ports of KDE PIM

The plan for Akonadi is to make KDE PIM 4.1 the Akonadi Platform 
release. That means that libakonadi and the required infrastructure is 
moved to kdepimlibs, so that third-party applications and resources can 
be developed based on Akonadi.

This also will be the base for an incremental port of the existing KDE 
PIM apps to Akonadi. The goal is to do this in trunk by refactoring the 
existing applications, but keeping the apps stable.

The KDE 4 version of Mailody already uses Akonadi. It's the first full 
application which makes use of the new backend infrastructure. Mailody 
is likely to be released once the Akonadi Platform is available in a 
stable version.

To make migration easier there also exists a bridge which makes Akonadi 
data available through the KResources framework. It might be nice to 
also implement an Akonadi agent who can talk to the old KResources.

There are also first Akonadi resources and plasmoids in playground. We 
hope that more of this will emerge as the platform gets more stable, 
complete and available.

The long-term mission of Akonadi is to provide a cross-platform 
cross-desktop storage service for KDE PIM data. So it's not meant to be 
limited to KDE. APIs for other environments or other programming 
languages than C++ are very welcome.

If there are questions or comments about the KDE PIM 4.1 plans, please 
don't hesitate to speak up and discuss the plan. I personally think 
this will be an exciting release, and by not trying to do the full port 
to Akonadi at once, I'm pretty confident that we will get a stable and 
usable version of Kontact with 4.1.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>
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