"Over on his blog Sebastian Kügler talks about the status
of Akonadi, how the migration of Kontact to Akonadi is going, and
in general where the direction of development is leading.
"As a status update, sebas notes "Initially, we had planned to
release the new Kontact along with the rest of the KDE Applications
4.5. This did not quite work out, so we pushed the release back a
bit, and are planning to release it along with one of the 4.5.x
updates. The current plan is to release the Akonadi port of Kontact
still this year. In contrast to our usual releases, this step is a
bit different. We want to avoid hassle for the end-user as much as
possible, so we are extending the beta phase until we think the
quality is sufficient for the high demands of users, which is
especially important in Kontact, where you likely spend a lot of
your time."
"The blog post also gives some more insight in how Akonadi
works, and where it will be used in the future. He concludes "With
all the above in mind, there's little less than a revolution going
on in the groupware area. Akonadi matures further and makes
possible a full-fledged groupware client in the form of Kontact,
with excellent scalability and extensibility."
