Frameworks/Epics/kdepimlibs

kdepimlibs Splitting Epic

Planning

The KDE PIM community has outlined the following plan for splitting kdepimlibs into Frameworks libraries

• Wait for the kdelibs split to be completed and the preview release to be made
• A frameworks branch to be created in kdepimlibs and Qt5 / KF5 basic porting to be performed here mostly by the Frameworks team (old frameworks branch to be reviewed and deleted)
• Once work is started here no more style fixes to be applied to Master
• Code relying on qt3support and deprecated libraries will be removed as part of the porting
• Once porting is completed then kdepimlibs will be spilt into separate frameworks
• Once split the maintainers of each framework will take over work to make any API and code changes required
• PIM Frameworks will be released as and when they are ready, we do not need to release them all at the same time
• PIM Frameworks will be prioritised depending on usage, i.e. libraries needed by KDE Workspaces and Kolab should be released first
• kdepim-runtime will be split between PIM Framework and kdepim

Policies

See the other Frameworks pages for the KDE Frameworks Policies, the kdelibs Split Policies and the Definition of Done .

The kdepimlibs specific policies are:

• Modules that use qt3support are to be removed
• Deprecated API is allowed to be removed
• Source compatibility requirements are relaxed due to fewer clients, but major rewrites are discouraged. Instead port the old library and create a separate new library (e.g. KHolidays and QHolidays).
• Most libraries will aim for Tier 2, but some may be able to target Tier 1.
• The initial KF5 port may rely on kde4support to enable the port to be performed by non-experts, but no Framework released may rely on kde4support so the maintainer must remove all usage. In particular all KDateTime, KTimeZone and KLocale usage must be removed and the Qt replacements throughly tested for regressions and behaviour changes.

Priorities

The following libraries are known to be used outside of KDE PIM and so may be a higher priority in porting.

kde-workspace

Usage:

• kde-workspace/libs/plasmaclock/
  • KHolidays (for selection widget, could be moved elsewhere?)
• kde-workspace/plasma/generic/dataengines/akonadi/
  • Akonadi
  • KMime
  • KABC
  • Microblog
  • KPimUtils (linked but not included?)
• kde-workspace/plasma/generic/dataengines/calendar/
  • Akonadi
  • KCalCore
  • KCalUtils
  • KHolidays
• kde-workspace/plasma/generic/dataengines/rss/
  • Syndication

Note: It is recommended that the Akonadi DataEngine be reworked/renamed as EMailEngine, ToDoEngine, etc, as this is client developer facing API and so the implementation name should be abstracted/hidden from them, i.e. as is done with the CalendarEngine.

kde-runtime

Usage:

• kde-runtime/drkonqi/
  • KXMLRPCClient
• kde-runtime/kwalletd
  • QGpgme

Kolab

WIP.

• KIMAP

kdepimlibs libraries

Listing of top-level directories in kdepimlibs and the README file, if subdirectories need breaking out separately then please add to list.

Library	Description	Internal Dependencies
akonadi	Client access library for using the Akonadi PIM data server.
cmake
docs
gpgme++
includes
kalarmcal
kblog	C++ API for weblogging access
kcal	C++ API for the iCalendar and vCalendar formats (Deprecated by kcalcore and kcalutils)
kcal/libical	A basic iCalendar protocol implementation, see RFCs 2245,2246
kcalcore	C++ API for the iCalendar and vCalendar formats
kcalutils	C++ library containing utility functions on top of kcalcore.
kholidays	C++ library for calendar holidays
kimap	C++ API for IMAP support
kioslaves/sieve	Sieve kioslave
kldap	C++ API for LDAP access
kmbox
kmime	C++ API for MIME handling
kontactinterface	The glue for embedding KParts into Kontact
kpimidentities	C++ API for shared identities for mail applications
kpimtextedit	Provides a textedit with PIM-specific features and can convert the textedit content to various markup formats
kpimutils	A library for general purpose PIM utilities
kresources
ktnef	C++ API for the handling of TNEF data
kxmlrpclient	An XML-RPC client library
mailtransport	C++ API and support code for managing mail transport
microblog	A library for microblogging
qgpgme	A C++ wrapper for gpgme
syndication	An RSS/Atom feed parser library

kdepimlibs Split Tasks

Maintainers as per the MAINTAINERS file, please change if not correct.

Status	Framework	Tier	Porter	Maintainer	Comments
TODO	akonadi	Tier 2?		Dan Vratil
TODO	cmake	Tier 2?
TODO	doc	Tier 2?
TODO	gpgme++	Tier 2?		Marc Mutz
TODO	includes	Tier 2?
TODO	kabc	Tier 2?		Tobias Koenig
TODO	kalarmcal	Tier 2?		David Jarvie
TODO	kblog	Tier 2?		Christian Weilbach
TODO	kcal	Tier 2?			To be deleted
TODO	kcalcore	Tier 2?		Sergio Martins, Allen Winter	High priority, needed by Workspace.
TODO	kcalutils	Tier 2?		Sergio Martins, Allen Winter
TODO	kholidays	Tier 1		John Layt, Allen Winter	High priority, needed by Workspace. Split and basic port, will be replaced later by OpenHolidays. Will need internal copy of KCalendarSystem
TODO	kimap	Tier 2?
TODO	kioslave	Tier 2?
TODO	kldap	Tier 2?		Szombathelyi György
TODO	kmbox	Tier 2?		Bertjan Broeksema
TODO	kmime	Tier 2?		Volker Krause, Marc Mutz
TODO	kontactinterface	Tier 2?		Allen Winter
TODO	kpimidentities	Tier 2?
TODO	kpimtextedit	Tier 2?		Thomas McGuire, Stephen Kelly
TODO	kpimutils	Tier 2?
TODO	kresources	Tier 2?		Tobias Koenig
TODO	ktnef	Tier 2?		Michael Goffioul
TODO	kxmlrpcclient	Tier 2?
TODO	mailtransport	Tier 2?
TODO	microblog	Tier 2?		Tom Albers
TODO	qgpgme	Tier 2?		Marc Mutz
TODO	syndication	Tier 2?		Frank Osterfeld

kdepim-runtime Split Tasks

Listing of top-level directories in kdepimlibs, if subdirectories need breaking out separately then please add to list.

No MAINTAINERS file, please populate.

Status	Framework	Tier	Porter	Maintainer	Comments
TODO	accountwizard
TODO	agents
TODO	cmake
TODO	defaultsetup
TODO	doc
TODO	kcm
TODO	kioslave
TODO	kresources
TODO	libkdepim-copy
TODO	migration
TODO	opensync
TODO	plugins
TODO	qml
TODO	resources
TODO	resourcetester
TODO	tray