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>From the kde-devek mailing list.


Regards,
Yannai.

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Yannai A. Gonczarowski    System Administrator    yannaigo@leyada.jlm.k12.il
The Hebrew University High School    http://www.leyada.jlm.k12.il/~yannaigo/

Si vis pacem, para bellum
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KDE Core Team wrote:
> 
> Dear Developers,
> 
> KDE is becoming more and more mature every day. You all did an incredibly
> good job of making the vision of an integrated, user friendly Unix desktop
> a reality.
> 
> We all know that a lot of developers have very good stuff for KDE-1.1.x on
> their harddisk ready. We appologize for the long beta phase and feature
> freeze. You will soon be relieved.
> 
> Now it is time to get KDE-1.0 shipped to the masses.
> 
> Special thanks for your patients with the core developers and for the
> superiour quality of your contributed programs, patches, comments and
> support!
> 
> The good teamwork via kde-devel@kde.org really made us feel right at home.
> 
> So let's get the baby out of the door and have even more fun with future
> versions of KDE.
> 
> 
>         RELEASE SCHEDULE
>         ================
> 
> Wednesday, Jun 17th:
>          Information about the schedule to kde-devel@kde.org
> 
> Thursday, Jun 18th:
>          Upcoming freeze is formally announced to everyone
>          via kde-announce@kde.org. Program code of kdesupport
>          and kdelibs is frozen today at 10 pm CEST (adding documentation
>          and translations are not frozen, source and binary compatible
>          showstopper changes are allowed). Final set of icons are to be
>          included. No new messages may be added after 10 pm CEST.
> 
> Friday, Jun 19th:
>          Everyone should commit whatever changes have to
>          go into KDE-1.0pre1. No new files are allowed to be
>          introduced untill the final KDE-1.0 source is shipped.
> 
> Saturday, Jun 20th:
>          Synchronization of documents on the website and in the packages.
>          (This addresses stuff like quickstart.html) Get the ftp
>          server prepared. Check mirrors. Check round robin dns.
>          Tidy up developers' sites and development documentation.
> 
> Sunday, Jun 21th: 6:00 pm CEST
>          kdesupport and kdelibs are finally frozen. (No way of changing
>          them in any way). These two cvs modules are tagged as "1.0.pre1".
>          This work has mainly to be done by Stephan Kulow all other
>          developers may rest on this day ;-) In case any problems with
>          kdesupport and  kdelibs arise afterwards there have to be
>          workarounds elsewhere!
> 
> Monday, Jun 22th:
>          Every developer/alpha testers is encouraged to do a final clean
>          install. After collecting the experiences we will decide
>          which platforms will be supported directly. Problems with
>          particular platforms are documented. But no changes to the
>          packages due to portability problems any more. All packages are
>          frozen at 10:00 pm CEST. Updating documentation and translations
>          is ok. Source and binary compatible showstopper changes are
>          only allowed according to the "4 eyes principle" and the vast
>          majority of developers agree. Final decisions are to be made by
>          Kalle
> 
> Wednesday, Jun 24th:
>          Final freeze on _ALL_ packages at 10:00 pm CEST. No changes
>          possible any more! We tag and branch all packages in CVS as
>          "KDE-1.0pre1". After consulting with the developers on
>          kde-devel@kde.org Matthias Ettrich will decide if we can ship.
>          (In case we cannot ship we have to start from the beginning! No
>          last minute fixes are allowed!) Stephan Kulow will create the
>          new "KDE-1.1.x" branch. All commits to the cvs will from now on
>          be applied to this development tree. The KDE-1.0.x tree will be
>          maintained seperately.
> 
> Thursday, Jun 25th:
>          Upload of KDE-1.0pre1 source packages to the master site in order
>          to give the mirrors a chance to catch up.
>          Some hours later the files will show up on ftp.kde.org. We are
>          going to use md5 checksums on all files and Kalle will sign the
>          tar.bz2 files.
> 
> Friday, Jun 26th:
>          We start to provide binaries for the different platforms.
>          Only binaries being provided by us or the official distribution
>          vendors will get officially provided to the public.
> 
> Saturday, Jun 27th:
>          Binaries will get updated on ftp.kde.org as they drop in. It is
>          forbidden to change the source in order to contribute
>          official binaries.
> 
> Tuesday, Jun 29th:
>          We finally decide what _absolutely_ must be changed for
>          KDE-1.0 if anything at all. The goal will be to ship KDE-1.0
>          ASAP without major modifications. There will be now further beta
>          release.
> 
> Friday, Jul 1st:
>          Final shipping date of KDE-1.0 will be announced on all major
>          channels (CNN, USA today et al. do get prepared ;-))
> 
> D-Day (Distribution day):
>          A new aera in development of OpenSource GUI applications for
>          the X11 Window platform begins. There is now a reliable and
>          attractive QT/KDE API which shall, in alliance with the
>          OpenSource operating systems, represent a real alternative to the
>          monopolistic, proprietary platform ;-)
> 
> Basically KDE-1.0 is not the end BUTTH[TM] the beginning of new, exciting
> development.
> 
> Keep up the great teamwork
> 
> Yours,
>    (in alphabetical Order)
>         Roberto Alsina
>         Kalle Dalheimer
>         Mark Donohoe
>         Christian Esken
>         Matthias Ettrich
>         Steffen Hansen
>         Matthias Hoelzer
>         Martin Jones
>         Sirtaj Singh Kang
>         Martin Konold
>         Stephan Kulow
>         Richard Moore
>         Sven Radej
>         Reginald Stadlbauer
>         Stefan Taferner
>         Uwe Thiem
>         Mario Weilguni
>         Torben Weis
>         Robert David Williams
>         Bernd Wuebben
>         Markus Wuebben