On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 05:29:57 PM Harald Sitter wrote: > Lo' > > As we do not agree on whether we agree on a decision I'd like everyone > to cast a vote in favor of KTP or Kopete as default for 12.04. The > relevant discussion can be found at [1].
My vote is for Kopete. There are four reasons for this: 1. LTS is not the time to make a major technology change. This should be done in LTS +1. 2. Not integrated to our desktop - I think Message Indicator support is essential unless we drop this from our default panel layout. There are other feature parity issues, but I think this is the critical one. 3. KTP upstream request (in this thread): > Personally I'd rather you kept Kopete for now but I can see why you > don't want to maintain Kopete backends for another 3 years. 4. Maintainability. That last point might require a bit of discussion as I think it's somewhat backwards from the way most would look at it. I don't think we need to worry a lot about Kopete maintenance other than security issues. It does what it does. It doesn't do what it doesn't do. The code doesn't churn much from release to release, so there's not a lot of risk that a year or two from now some serious performance bug will be identified that someone will have to figure out without help from (the almost dead) upstream. KTP, OTOH, is a young code base that is evolving rapidly. I think the chance we can be confident to have fully stabilized and all significant issues identified at or near release is much lower. By the time we hit such things, the KTP project will have moved on to newer code and not be in a position to provide much support. Support really comes down to security issues. As an application (or stack of applications) that directly connect to the outside world, they are at risk of latent security issues being discovered at ~any point in the support period. This is a 5 year LTS. For the first year or so, if there are such issues in Kopete, we can count on KDE SC 4.8 being supported by upstream. After that, we'll have to look at fixes from other distros or later KDE SC releases or write them ourselves. Since Kopete code is not changing much, the chances, in later parts of the support cycle when 4.8 is no longer supported, of security fixes from later KDE SC releases being easily backported to 4.8 are pretty good. For KDE Telepathy, the opposite is true. Since they are in rapid development, the chances that any fixes for later releases would apply to 12.04 would be much lower. Supporting an LTS is about stability and security, not the latest wizbang. I think KDE Telepathy is comng along nicely and I support shifting to it as default immediately for 12.10, but now is not the time. Scott K -- kubuntu-devel mailing list kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
