kde-pim dev needed, for a sponsored open source effort, to remove akonadi
Peter Humphrey
peter at prh.myzen.co.uk
Sat Mar 17 17:00:53 GMT 2018
On Saturday, 17 March 2018 16:41:34 GMT Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> Martin already voiced most of what I wanted to say, but I just want to
> point out, that you can't just remove Akonadi. You need to replace it
> with something else that will do the work that Akonadi is doing now. You
> can drive a car when you removed the engine from it :) From the
> experience I can say that designing and implementing a PIM storage
> solution is easily worth many hundreds of man- days, not mentioning
> additional time to actually port Kontact to the new system and polish it.
> It's your money and I can't tell you what to do with it, but maybe
> consider supporting development of existing projects like Trojita or
> Kube, which may just be a missing a few features to make you a happy
> user.
>
> Finally, I'm really sorry that your experience with KDE PIM is bad. We are
> not intentionally neglecting it. We all love the project and working on
> it and we do want to see every single one of our users happy and
> satisfied. But time and resources are limited and many issues that users
> have we just can't reproduce, so fixing them is very hard.
Some time ago someone suggested a kind of task force, in which developers
and some knowledgeable users would collaborate. What happened to that idea?
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Regards,
Peter
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