Kontact 2 / kdepim 4.6 still experimental?

[O. Sinclair]

On 13/07/2011 23:29, Clay Weber wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 09:57:21 AM O. Sinclair wrote:
>> 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"
>
> 4.6.1 is out, though no kubuntu packages yet - this bugfix release might make
> it usable looking at the items that were fixed.
>
> My trial of Kmail2 was mostly ok, no crashes or anything major. Even the
> migration tool did a fairly good job. But some things, like broken filters and
> a couple other small annoyancees made me give up after a short time
>
>
I had a brief interaction with the maintainer via identi.ca and he is 
aware of 4.6.1 but does not have time to package it until 17-18 July. So 
be patient :-)