Kontact 2 / kdepim 4.6 still experimental?

[O. Sinclair]

On 13/07/2011 15:47, Matthias Philipp wrote:
> Hi Sinclair,
>
> thanks for your reply! That sounds indeed still very experimental...
>
> It's a pity though. I was so looking forward to finally have CalDAV and
> CardDAV support in Akonadi. But I'll rather wait for 4.7.
>
> Best regards, Matthias
>
> On 13.07.2011 15:10, O. Sinclair wrote:
>> On 13/07/2011 14:06, Matthias Philipp wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I noticed that KDE released a new version of the Kontact suite together
>>> with KDE 4.6.4.
>>> While the new KDE packages are available in the Kubuntu Updates PPA, I
>>> found the Kontact packages to be still in the Experimental PPA.
>>>
>>> Has anybody an idea why Kontact 2 / kdepim 4.6 is still experimental?
>>> Will it be moved to the Updates PPA in the foreseeable future?
>>> Do you have any experiences with with it i.e. is it usable yet?
>>>
>> Having done the upgrade and been at x number of forums and mailinglists
>> it is clear to me that it is a sort of "kde 4.0" version. In other words
>> go for it if you have time for nuisances and potential problems and
>> bugs, not otherwise. Wait and see if it comes in SC 4.7 or when Kubuntu
>> moves it to "backports" ppa.
>>
>> As I understand only Arch moved it to main repos and the users are all
>> but happy - many of them at least.
>>
>> For me it works but I do have:
>> frequent "hangs" do to something called "conflict resolutions"
>> erraticly working spamfilters
>> a trash folder that can only be emptied manually
>> a search function that only works for subject lines
>>
>> otherwise it works reasonably well - for me. But others have far worse
>> problems.
>>

to wait is honestly my recommendation - or go to Arch linux forums, 
kdepim mailing list archives, kde community forums etc first and scout 
around for KMail or KMail2

What I miss in the proud announcement of it being available was perhaps 
"this is a first release for those willing to assist working out the 
final kinks" rather than "migration should go smooth"