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

[kitts]

On Thursday 07 Feb 2008 4:32:25 am Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> 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.

There is no information about KArm/KTimeTracker. Is anything planned?
-- 
Cheers!
kitts
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