Akonadi – still alive and rocking

Posted Jan 13, 2016 18:53 UTC (Wed) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
In reply to: Akonadi – still alive and rocking by riteshsarraf
Parent article: Akonadi – still alive and rocking

Both, GNOME and KDE, should realize that transitions don't mean you rip everything apart and go back to the drawing board.

I'm not sure I agree. Making radical changes- including radical improvements- is often disruptive. Even if it's possible to have backward compatibility so people aren't forced to try the new stuff, there's considerable maintenance pain associated with maintaining two ways of doing things. Even worse, a lot of people who are afraid of change will never try the new approach, so the pain of changeover is only delayed until the old way is deprecated and removed.