Hey PIMsters, On Sunday, April 12, 2015 11:31:26 Daniel Vrátil wrote: > Greetings from Toulouse! > > We've been discussing the plans for releases of Akonadi(Next) and KDE PIM as > a whole on the PIM sprint, because the current situation is kinda unclear > and harmful for the project. > > Now that we have a better idea of what Akonadi Next will be like, we > decided that we don't want to just basically stop working on PIM and focus > all our efforts towards Akonadi Next because that would cause the entire > PIM to be in sort of a limbo for who-knows-how-long and that would not be > good for our users and for the project in general. We are already losing > users so freezing the development of the project does not sound like a good > idea. > > Instead we will aim towards releasing KF5-based KDE PIM with "Akonadi 1" in > the next release of KDE Applications in August. That means we now have > about 4 months to make sure that there are no regressions caused by changes > in Qt behavior - this should be manageable and not much effort really. This > is an internal change more or less, users won't notice anything.
This sounds awesome. I've been having a bit of doubt about the earlier plans to bet everything on Akonadi Next and not release a Qt5/KF5 port first -- from experience with many projects in the KDE4 migration, but also from a users' point of view, who would in that case be missing a properly integrated PIM in Plasma 5 for quite a while. Thanks for revisiting these plans, from what I can see, the revised strategy seems very good. Cheers, -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
