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KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update

Posted by Dre on Monday 16/Jul/2001, @21:30
from the well-worth-the-extra-wait dept.
After some debate last week over whether KDE 2.2 HEAD BRANCH was ready for a stable release, Waldo Bastian, the KDE 2.2 release coordinator, has posted a revised release schedule (also available if you Read More). The release has been delayed two weeks from Monday, July 16 to August 6. Though KDE excels at sticking to published release schedules, it seems to me that stability and security are the developers' primary concerns. And That's A Good Thing^TM.

Subject:	KDE 2.2 release: current schedule
Date:	Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:30:59 -0700
From:	Waldo Bastian
To:	kde-devel@kde.org, kde-core-devel@kde.org, kde-i18n-doc@kde.org, koffice-devel@kde.org

Hiya,

This is to keep you up to date with the status of the KDE 2.2 release. I have added a bit more time in the schedule in order to fix security problems that exist with our use of https at the moment. I hope that everyone else can use this time to do some additional bugfixing. Please be very carefull and send patches of your changes to a mailinglist for review first. *)

The up to date schedule for the KDE 2.2 release is as follows:

From the release plan:

KDE 2.2 final

Monday July 16. The HEAD branch goes into deep-freeze. All commits should be posted for review _BEFORE_ commiting.
Sunday July 29. Last day for translations, documentation, icons and critical bugfixes commits.
Monday July 30. The HEAD branch of CVS is tagged KDE_2_2_RELEASE and the day is spent testing the release a final time.
Tuesday July 31. The tarballs are made and released to the packagers. The rest of the week is spent testing the tarballs, packaging and writing the announcement and changelog.
Friday August 3. The source and binary packages are uploaded to ftp.kde.org to give some time for the mirrors to get them.
Monday August 6. Announce KDE 2.2.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q) Which packages are included?

A) The current list of packages that will be in the 2.2 release is:

kdelibs
kdebase
kdenetwork
kdegraphics
kdeadmin
kdemultimedia
kdegames
kdeutils
kdetoys
kdepim
kdesdk
kdebindings
kdevelop
kdoc
New package: kdeaddons
New package: kdeartwork

Cheers,

Waldo
--
bastian@kde.org | SuSE Labs KDE Developer | bastian@suse.com

(Ed: For those who have not noticed yet, KDE no longer ships with kdesupport, under the theory that modern distributions already provide the programs forming kdesupport.)

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What about KOffice?
by Andrea on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @02:42

Wise decision! Waldo, thank you for taking kare of the release schedule in such a professional way. I have still an other kuestion:

Will Koffice also be delayed?

I think it should be. The number of minutes it takes me to get KWord or KPresenter (Koffice 1.1 Beta 3) to krash is still less then 3 withuot particularly heavy testing :-<.

I think the basic functionality is there. we need to koncentrate more on the stability, that's klear ;-).

PS: BTW, may be I am I the only one having these problems. Any comments/experiences on the stability of the varoius packages?

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Re: What about KOffice? by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @03:18

Re: What about KOffice? by SD on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @04:20

Re: What about KOffice? by shaheed on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @06:14

Re: What about KOffice? by SD on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @13:50
Re: What about KOffice? by Jerome Loisel on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @15:06

Re: What about KOffice? by Gregory W. Brubaker on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @15:44

Re: What about KOffice? by AB on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @16:13

Re: What about KOffice? by Carbon on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @18:33

Re: What about KOffice? by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @04:38
Re: What about KOffice? by Erik Hill on Friday 20/Jul/2001, @21:09

Will Mosfets liquid style be included?
by Andreas Joseph Krogh on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @05:09

What about Mosfets changes/addons, will they be included, or available somewhere?

--
Andreas

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Re: Will Mosfets liquid style be included? by Coward on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @17:58

Locolor-Icons
by Solaris-User on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @05:35

I hope this additional time will be used to re-add the intentionally from kdebase removed icons for 8bpp displays!

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Re: Locolor-Icons by Benoit DUMONT on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @07:28
Re: Locolor-Icons by Tackat on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @10:37

Re: Locolor-Icons by Solaris-User on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @17:59

Re: Locolor-Icons by Tackat on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @09:31

Re: Locolor-Icons by Solaris-User on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @18:48

Re: Locolor-Icons by Tackat on Friday 20/Jul/2001, @09:11

Re: Locolor-Icons by Solaris-User on Friday 20/Jul/2001, @15:24

Re: Locolor-Icons by Solaris-User on Friday 20/Jul/2001, @16:05
Re: Locolor-Icons by Antonio Larrosa on Saturday 21/Jul/2001, @10:46

Re: Locolor-Icons by Solaris-User on Saturday 21/Jul/2001, @12:41

Re: Locolor-Icons by Antonio Larrosa on Sunday 22/Jul/2001, @00:07

Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update
by Per Wigren on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @06:41

Please don't include kwrite in the distribution unless you add support for at least 100 languages!

Sorry, just joking... :)

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ok by Navindra Umanee on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @08:03
Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Jean-Christophe Fargette on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @16:47

Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Benjamin Atkin on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @17:00

Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Justin on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @20:43

Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Benjamin Atkin on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @17:01

Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Benjamin Atkin on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @17:02

KDE features
by Benjamin Atkin on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @14:48

I'm sure many people with modem connections will like the new kwm behavior where windows are placed on the desktop where it was launched. Now someone can switch to a new desktop, start conqueror, and switch back to the window they were working in. Then in a few seconds their window should be ready with their homepage. I'll just like the fact that it's the behavior that I expect, since I have a fast computer and a fast network connection :-)

I know this is just a minor improvement, but there are ones all over that will greatly improve KDE. There are all kinds of reasons why KDE is my favorite interface.

As for major improvements, Kooka and KDEPrint are most exciting to me. I hope those working on the KOffice project get WYSIWYG improved soon. Scanning and printing are particularly important to the desktop user, and I look forward to being able to do digital photography easily with KDE.

It is amazing how much progress has been made with KDE. There are so many ease of use, performance, and stability reasons to use it over Windows or Mac OS X, not to mention the sharing of software makes for a better society.

Thanks, KDE developers!!!

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Re: KDE features by Mark Hillary on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @16:08

Re: KDE features by David G. Watson on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @12:05

Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update
by Metrol on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @15:27

Seeing as how there's already a couple of folks asking about KOffice, I've got a similar kind of status request. Anybody know what all is going on with Quanta? Last I looked in the CVS, nothing has been updated for over 2 months. No updates on the SourceForge page either.

Is the project dead? As I recall, last major KDE release the developers of Quanta spent a healthy amount of time working on KDE 2.0. Is that the case this time as well, or should I just give up on hoping for a high quality HTML/PHP editor for KDE?

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Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Protoman on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @16:57

Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update
by Justin Hibbits on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @17:22

This may sound like a flame, but it is just a little glimpse of reality.

One thing that would really help is if they were to actually TEST the system. I am still running KDE 2.1, but I wish I were back at 1.1.2, at least that never crashed, and I don't push KDE any more now than I did then, and it is still very slow and unstable. Word of advice to you KDE developers, TEST THE ENVIRONMENT UNTIL IT BREAKS, THEN TEST IT SOME MORE!!!! KDE is getting so bad, it is sinking almost to the level of Winblows. I am a developer, and I want speed and power, I don't care about DCop, which just bogs down the system. I took one look at the ps -awx output and nearly went insane, the kdeinit fork for dcop is (VSZ)13 MEGS!!!! Now where the hell did they go from 100k in the benchmarks to 13MB in the practice? And I thought the session manager was supposed to stay out of the way, how does that take up 13 MB of virtual memory? There must be memory leaks somewhere. Now, did someone happen to write a "desktop2kdelnk" program, the reverse of kdelnk2desktop?

All I can say now is their actions are getting to be stupid, sacrificing performance, speed, memory, and stability for some more bells and whistles that half of us don't want or need? That is plain stupid. I just say they should go back to writing code like in KDE1.1.2, now to fish out my Mandrake 7.1 CD's for the kde1.1.2 source...I know their somewhere around here...

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Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by ik on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @19:16
dcopserver memory usage by Wilco on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @20:14

Re: dcopserver memory usage by Knut Stolze on Friday 20/Jul/2001, @19:42

I thought you actually sounded like a troll. by Gilded Rooster on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @20:45

Re: I thought you actually sounded like a troll. by Marc Spisl�nder on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @09:28

Re: I thought you actually sounded like a troll. by David G. Watson on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @12:10

Re: I thought you actually sounded like a troll. by Marc Spisl�nder on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @20:55

Re: I thought you actually sounded like a troll. by Tackat on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @12:19

Re: I thought you actually sounded like a troll. by Marc Spisl�nder on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @21:09

Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Mark Roberts on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @20:46

Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Justin Hibbits on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @10:21

Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update
by None on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @22:02

Will KDE ever have a fairly standards-compliant + feature-full browser? How about embedding, in the vain of the Galeon project?

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Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Kevin Puetz on Tuesday 17/Jul/2001, @22:21

Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update
by Havard Bjastad on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @06:44

What's really missing in KDE (compared to GNOME) is something like Ximian's Red Carpet. Are there any plans to create something similar for KDE?

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Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Navindra Umanee on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @08:18

Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Havard Bjastad on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @09:48

Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Lauri Watts on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @12:35
Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Alex on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @12:57

Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Havard Bjastad on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @17:03
Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Magnus Pym on Thursday 19/Jul/2001, @12:40

Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by Kevin Shaum on Thursday 19/Jul/2001, @17:11

Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by ferdinand on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @17:05

Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by someone on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @19:11

Re: KDE 2.2 Release Schedule Update by ferdinand on Thursday 19/Jul/2001, @03:11

Python support in KWrite and Kate?!
by Per Wigren on Wednesday 18/Jul/2001, @14:08

Running today's CVS snapshot and it seems very stable!

But where is the Python support in KWrite and Kate??! Will it be in before the 2.2-release?

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KDE 2.2 Release and Solaris/Sparc audio issues
by Gerhard Frnke on Thursday 19/Jul/2001, @08:58

Is it planned to fully support Sun Audio in KDE 2.2 Release?

After arts finally supports Sun Audio in KDE-2.2Beta1 it would
be nice if some other audio-apps would also work as expected.

1. The ogg-vorbis plugins (mpeglib, oggvorbis_artsplugin) don`t consider the endianess
of the sparc architecture. ov_read() deals with that.

2. Some applications (e.g. mpeglib,kmix) were accessing the audio(ctl) device directly
by hardcoding the path to the devices. Especially Suns SunRays do not use these.
The SunRay-serversoftware uses $AUDIODEV to access the audiodevices.
For the audioctl device, one has to append "ctl" to the value of $AUDIODEV.

3. mpeglib will not be built by default for the sparc architecture, but why not? It seems to work.

4. There are some other (non audio) issues, but I don't remember exactly...

Gerhard

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