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  KDE 4.0 Release Schedule Revised
KDE Official News Posted by Sebastian Kügler on Friday 07/Sep/2007, @03:20
from the release-team dept.
The KDE Release Team has revised the release schedule for KDE 4.0. The first visible bits of KDE 4.0 will be the KDE Development Platform release on October, 30. This Development Platform release consists of bits and pieces needed to develop KDE applications. It includes kdesupport, kdelibs, kdepimlibs and kdebase/runtime. The purpose of the KDE Development Platform release is to make it easier for third party developers to port their applications to KDE4 technology and to start developing new applications. The final and long awaited release of the KDE Desktop 4.0 is planned for December, 11th 2007, well in time to be a Christmas present for everyone who has been longing for KDE 4.0.

The revised release schedule looks like this:

  • October, 2nd: KDE 4.0 Beta 3
  • October, 19th: Total Release Freeze, only critical bugfixes are allowed to get in. If in doubt, ask the release coordinator.
  • October, 30th: KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 1
  • November, 14th: KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 2
  • December, 11th: KDE 4.0

Tagging of those releases takes place on the Wednesday before the release, so if you are a developer, make sure to have your code in by the following dates:

  • September, 26th: Tagging Beta3
  • October, 19th: Total Release Freeze, critical bugfixes only from this date
  • October, 24th: Tagging RC1
  • November, 14th: Tagging RC2
  • December, 5th: Tagging 4.0

The Release Team would like to stress that developers should be in 'release mode' by now, concentrating on making KDE4 usable as quickly as possible. Start using the current SVN version and help us fixing bugs.



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Very good!
by LordBernhard on Friday 07/Sep/2007, @05:13
i think it's a very good strategy to wait for a really final and stable release for december and to release a developer version earlier. I update my opensuse packages of KDE4 every day and I'm always happy when I see new things which work... so move on with the great work!

Bye

Bernhard
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  • Explanation of the Development Platform
    by Sebastian Kügler on Friday 07/Sep/2007, @05:28
    We're not releasing a "development version" (well, we do, it's called "Beta" and "Release Candidates"). The Developer Platform however does *not* contain the desktop, nor applications. It's "merely" a set of libraries and tools that you need to *write* KDE 4 applications. Those parts are considerable further down the road than the desktop itself (no surprise there), so we want to give third party developers the opportunity to work with it while we're still polishing the desktop itself.
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    • Re: Explanation of the Development Platform
      by Diederik van der Boor on Friday 07/Sep/2007, @05:48
      I think this is a really good move! Compiling all of KDE still seams like a daunting task to me. If I can install a "SDK" to start coding directly, I'd really use that instead.

      Likewise, the KDE4 packages for openSUSE made me consider to try it out now. I don't feel like compiling KDE every week again. ;-)
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    • Re: Explanation of the Development Platform
      by LordBernhard on Friday 07/Sep/2007, @08:40
      oh.. I'm really sorry for this mistake.. I haven't had enough time at work to read the whole text so I just flew over it... nonetheless it's a great decision!

      I've got one last question: will there be enough documentation ready in the techbase (until the developer platform gets released) to start from scratch with KDE4 programs? atm there are wonderful categories but most of them are empty or really basic. I'm really interested in this because I'd like to write a little systemcenter for KDE and it should also have support for plasma/plasmoids and therefore I'd need good documentation of plasma/solid and some other stuff.
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good move
by Lee on Friday 07/Sep/2007, @06:28
Good move guys. Eager as I am to get my hands on a finished KDE4, I'd ratehr wait until it's REALLY finished, and everyone else (even people who've never tried KDE before) can realise its potential too. Well done :)
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Bad
by Hans on Friday 07/Sep/2007, @11:37
You REALLY had change the release date of KDE 4.0 to when I have all my tests, aight? ;)

No seriously, I think it sounds great. So, is the codename going to be "Khristmas"? Oh wait, forgot that you change all 'K's to 'C' nowadays.

Keep up with the great work!
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  • Re: Bad
    by edit on Friday 07/Sep/2007, @11:43
    *had change = had to change
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    • Re: Bad
      by ben on Friday 07/Sep/2007, @12:48
      Why did they have to change Ks to Cs
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      • Re: Bad
        by Hans on Friday 07/Sep/2007, @14:44
        Don't worry, they won't change to CDE or Copete. ;)
        See http://dot.kde.org/1189078926/1189105274/1189107719/
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        • Re: Bad
          by Martin on Friday 07/Sep/2007, @15:22
          Isn't the CDE name more or less available now? I searched for "cde" on a well-known search engine and the top (related) hit was the following page: http://www.opengroup.org/cde/

          where the FAQ contained questions such as:

          "What is the right porting path for me if I am using Motif 1.2.4 right now? Should I expect to be using CDEnext as of January 1, 1997? How do I get there from here?"

          Who is for a name change!? CDE 4.0 - the cool desktop environment :-)
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          • Re: Bad
            by Chani on Friday 07/Sep/2007, @18:21
            community desktop environment? :)
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          • Re: Bad
            by David on Friday 07/Sep/2007, @22:17
            Hear, hear. We may as well, so that we don't have to explain to all of the hoards of newbies what the "K" stands for...
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          • Re: Bad
            by Reply on Saturday 08/Sep/2007, @00:12
            If you're going for a name change might as well drop the nonsense that is "desktop environment".
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        • Re: Bad
          by reihal on Friday 07/Sep/2007, @23:45
          The point of the excursion into Latin is that K,C and Q are pronounced the same and can be used as you like.
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String freeze?
by kde.fan.from.brasil on Friday 07/Sep/2007, @13:00
The string freeze will occur in October 19th also?

Thank you.
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Bugreports
by Felix on Saturday 08/Sep/2007, @02:40
> Start using the current SVN version and help us fixing bugs.

I think this means "help coding" right? Just having svn running here, and it looks like it is to early to report bugs ;)


Greetings
Felix
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Translation freeze?
by Rinse on Saturday 08/Sep/2007, @03:01
I don't see a translation freeze in the schedule.

Wich is the final data for translations?
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