2011/3/11 David Edmundson <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > As you may be aware the new contact list is in the process of being reviewed > to be moved back into master. It's currently mid-way through review process. > I want to talk about what I want to do with KDE Telepathy, unfortunately > this is slighlty controversial so here goes: > I want to make a pre-pre-release of KDE Telepathy _without_ metacontacts and > nepomuk integration.
You'll be pleased to hear that I fully agree with this idea :) > At the current rate we're on target to get an early working release out in > Early May - with enough feedback on that to get a better release alongside > KDE 4.7. > I'm not saying anything bad about the KDE lib, or nepomuk integration > daemon, only that it isn't ready yet. Even if it was worked on solidly when > George gets out of his exams with time for building, the extended testing > and updating all our components will slip everything back by 3 months. Agreed. > It's my belief that if we did wait we'll lose the current momentum and worse > still some of our new devs who are pretty awesome. There's no shame in > adding it in later. Agreed. However, I'd like to add one condition to this to get my approval, which is: let's not forget the real vision of this project in the rush to get a release out - remember we're not trying to make another Kopete or Pidgin, but we're trying to do something new and better. We're trying to make communication and collaboration something which is everywhere - a core part of other applications and the workspace, not a standalone IM client program. If releasing a Telepathy based IM program first to get something out the door and get some feedback to build upon is the best way of getting this vision underway, then +1 from me (and, from observing recent goings-on in KDE Telepathy I'd say that this the right thing to do). -- George _______________________________________________ KDE-Telepathy mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy
