[kdepim-users] My impressions about the current state of KDE-PIM

[Torgny Nyblom]

On Sunday 08 January 2012 09.03.34 O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 08/01/12 07:24, infrabit at infrabit.net wrote:
> > On Sunday, January 08,2012 12:32:09 PM Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
[...]
> While I agree with you on "tons of apps" statement you also prove his 
> point - your advice list to get it working is way beyond what "non IT 
> pros" would and should have to go through to make KDEPIM work.

Hmm, isn't this the nix philosophy? "One app per task" as opposed to the MS one, "one app
to rule them all". I for one think that this is the way to go, it is easier to get ten relatively
small apps to work then one app ten times the size and complexity.

I must just say that if you start with a 4.7 (preferably .4) version things are much better
and since this is the first (4.7) official release of KDEPIM I do not agree on all of these
bad impressions mail. Many of then are based on pre release versions of the PIM stack.
One week point has been the migration wizard.

Also please not that the state of PIM has improved greatly from the first unofficial release (4.5)
until now, so yes we do take problems seriously, our issue is a simple one of manpower.

In PIM we have two kinds of developers,

1: Payed, they work on the part that there customers
pay them to work on.
2: Volunteers: We work when we have time and on the things that motivates us.

For PIM the sad truth is that the number of developers that actually stay and do more
then one or two things are quite low, so the ones that do stay have too many bugs to
fix. We will get the akonadi based PIM stack to be even better then the old one, but it will
require some more time and constructive feedback and bug reports.

/Regards
Torgny

(/me has been using the new PIM stack since it entered git and has just about 0 issues as of now)
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