UDS Considerations for Kubuntu

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Le 13/10/2011 16:31, Scott Kitterman a écrit :
> Kubuntu has prided itself on being a distro that is close to it's primary
> upstream, KDE.  For those of you going to UDS this time, I'd ask you to
> consider if this is really the best view for our users.
>
> I consider Kmail2/Akonadi to be a disaster in 4.7.  I know it is working for
> some people, but there are a LOT of people having a lot of problems.
> Personally, I had sort of assumed that since this is the second major release
> for Kmail2, it would be generally usable.
>
> I've built modified kdepim/kdepim-runtime 4.4 packages for my own use.  If I'd
> known what the state of these packages would be in 4.7, I'd have recommended
> we stick with 4.4 through the LTS.  You might consider reverting even to 4.3
> since that version had a full KDE4 Kaddressbook for 12.04.  As it stands, I
> don't think we should have included pim 4.7 in the release (my fault) and you
> ought to consider reverting to a working version for the LTS.

That makes sense to me, but migrating configuration, addressbook and 
mails from KMail2 + Akonadi back to KMail1 + KAddressBook is going to be 
a huge work I am afraid. Especially since this is not a subject where 
upstream will be happy to help :/

Aurélien