Hi, On Saturday 15 May 2010 13:26:00 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. > > Whatever we do, we're not hurting our downstreams, since 4.5 falls between > the major distros' release cycles anyway. There will be a bit more > packaging work during the 4.5 cycle to maintain repos containing SC 4.5 + > kdepim 4.4 and SC 4.5 + kdepim ATP, but as a packager I'm ok with that.
I'd agree with this. I'm against delaying the complete KDE SC 4.5, the above sounds like the best. We should stick to the 1 month delay plan however, the "ATP" should be fully usable for most users. Regards, Thomas
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