[Kde-pim] KDEPIM Needs More TIme

[Allen Winter]

On Saturday 15 May 2010 7:26:00 am Will Stephenson wrote:
> On Friday 14 May 2010 14:49:34 Allen Winter wrote:
> > On Friday 14 May 2010 8:42:21 am Allen Winter wrote:
> > > Howdy All,
> > > 
> > > I regret to inform everyone that kdepim will not be ready for a 4.5 Beta1
> > > that is scheduled to happen in a few days.
> > > 
> > > We estimate an extra month will be needed.
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately, the massive porting effort to Akonadi (an even bigger job
> > > than the Qt3/KDE3 -> Qt4/KDE4 port) is taking longer than we
> > > anticipated.
> > 
> > Forgot to mention that Thomas'  blog has a lot more details.
> > http://thomasmcguire.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/akonadi-meeting-and-the-kde-s
> > c-4-5-release 
> 
> I recommend releasing 4.5 without kdepim as was done with 4.0 and doing an 
> interim kdepim release cycle (call it akonadi tech preview) before 4.6. This 
> gives us a way to soft-launch the major Akonadi ports without the full 
> expectations coupled to being in the SC, and gives us some nice things to talk 
> about between 4.5 and 4.6.
> 
I'm ok with that.  But who will do the work of making the ATP release?
Someone from the kdepim team will need to make the ATP -- volunteers?