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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