KDE Networking Freeze Status

The following is the status of each application with respect to the upcoming freeze. Each application has a graph that corresponds to it's completion status. They are color-coded: Red means that some work needs to be done before it can be frozen. Yellow means that it is mostly done but needs some minor or trivial work. Green means it is ready for the freeze now.

If there is anything that needs to be here and isn't (planned API changes, for instance), let me know NOW!

Application:	caitoo
Maintainer:	Matt Koss
Status:	99%
Notes:	Feature-complete Uses KDE 2 API Could use a "what do I do now" message at startup.

Application:	columbo
Maintainer:	Bernd Gehrmann
Status:	40%
Notes:	Needs some help functionality. Possibility to add new search engines desirable (maybe difficult to understand for users how to do this, perhaps provide installable modules?) Colweb crashed each time for me while receiving the data; colftp after receiving and displaying the data. Should be a drag source (drag URLs from result list to desktop/konqueror/other app). Integrate into Konqueror somehow?

Application:	karchie
Maintainer:	Jörg Habenicht
Status:	10%
Notes:	Archie service is dead? Obsoleted by FTP module in Columbo? Does not run? Only partially ported to KDE 2.

Application:	kbiff
Maintainer:	Rik Hemsley
Status:	90%
Notes:	Seems to be feature-complete and ported to KDE 2. Advanced Settings dialog needs a help facility. Some layout warnings.

Application:	kfinger
Maintainer:	Andrea Rizzi
Status:	80%
Notes:	Some pixmaps missing. Aren't most finger services disabled for security reasons anyway? Lookup should be non-blocking? Could be integrated into KNU (which already has a finger implementation). Finger protocol implementation could be made a KIO slave (useful elsewhere???)

Application:	kmail
Maintainer:	Don Sanders
Status:	70%
Notes:	There is currently a dispute around which addressbook to use. Mirko and Don try to settle this dispute. Mostly feature-complete; a lot of development still going on. IMAP support is missing. We have announced this a long time ago, it would probably give bad press not to have it. (Heck, even Netscape does IMAP :-)) Filter dialog could use some more explanation texts (or be made more intuitive anyway). Would a wizard be good?

Application:	knu
Maintainer:	Bertrand Leconte
Status:	20%
Notes:	Not ported to KDE 2 (UI). Still maintained? Last commit from maintainer from June 1999. Feature-complete.

Application:	korn
Maintainer:	Cristian Tibirna
Status:	85%
Notes:	Do we really need korn and kbiff? (Maintainer: discussions said "yes", at least for the moment) Work to be put in polishing and checking KDE compliance. Perhaps merging with underlying (engine) technolofy of kbiff in the future

Application:	kppp
Maintainer:	Harri Porten
Status:	90%
Notes:	Ready for use. Provider-/modem database considered, probably after 2.0 Harri considers using Olaf Kirch's ksaferppp, time permitting.

Application:	krn
Maintainer:	Roberto Alsina
Status:	10%
Notes:	Needs resyncing between version in Sourceforge CVS and KDE CVS. Current version is not in shippable state.

Application:	ksirc
Maintainer:	Andrew Standley-Jones
Status:	30%
Notes:	Not maintained? Seems feature-complete (to an IRC ignorant like me), except Edit Servers button (could simply open Servers page in Preferences dialog?). Made to work with KDE 2, but not really ported? Many inquieting error messages both in console and IRC window. Dynamic loading of modules does not work. We need an IRC client; there are others available, but this one is considered the best one by some people who use IRC more than I do.

Application:	ktalkd
Maintainer:	David Faure
Status:	99%
Notes:	Ported and complete. Could benefit even more from having ktalk in kdenetwork, but that would need to be ported to KDE 2 first.