Hi
Another month came and went, and not much happened...
I'm actually a little afraid of releasing because we might attract some
users.
Well, to be more precise, that there will be nobody to support those
users.
An example; a user posed a question about words on the forum close to 2
months ago, still no answer.
I don't know enough to determine if the problem he ahs is just a matter
of doing it the right way or if it is a bug or a limitation in odt or
something else. It would take me a lot of time to find out so it would
be much better if someone in the know (eg Camilla) could have answered.
I would support plan of course, but what about words and sheets?
Camila and Tomas; what are you able to commit to, are there others?
I'm willing to set aside other stuff I'm working on to help, but I would
need guidance to get anything done in a reasonable time and reviews of
course, so I don't mess up too much.
Also, not to be forgotten, KChart and KGantt needs to be released.
Cheers, Dag.
Friedrich W. H. Kossebau skrev den 2016-09-20 01:33:
Hi,
Am Samstag, 2. Juli 2016, 08:17:40 CEST schrieb Camilla Boemann:
I think it's time we get a release out. We are stuck with not much
work
going on so inspired by Dag's return let's do a push to get ready.
I think we should cut down on the number of applications so we have
something manageble left. It's tough but the alternative is that
Calligra
dies completely. And nothing prevents us from bringing apps back
later.
So my question is: What is missing for us to have a release. I am not
talking about all the nice to have features and bug fixes. I am asking
what
would create huge problems for our users if we release.
Let's get things listed. I'll start:
Karbon: let's exclude from first release
From my testing it mainly works, so no real difference to Stage or
Words IMHO
So I would vote for include. Perhaps mark as experimental.
Flow: let's exclude from first release
Agreed. There would be also nothing to release :) Flow has not been
ported
even, as the plan of its maintainer was to make Flow another UI to the
Karbon
libs, optimized for Flow-specific use-cases. Just, has not happened
yet.
Braindump: let's drop it completely
It has been ported, build and works. Pity for the work done there. But
agreed.
No maintainer, no users known. Time tp git rm.
Gemini:
incomplete port to QtQuick2 -> not part of release, already marked as
STAGING
Format Filters:
guess anything that builds is on similar state as with 2.9. At least
all my
test files still work.
Okular plugins:
depend on unreleased Okular/KF5, work with current devel branch.
so fine keep included in release builds.
Okular/KF5 might be finally in KA 16.12
Other extras:
thumbnail etc. also work, so no reason to exclude
Cheers
Friedrich
