Future of KDE Development

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 14 February 2005 20:27, Torsten Rahn wrote:
...
> Apart from that I support Stephans suggestion to have a KDE 3.5 release so
> that all docwriters, usability-engineers, designers, translators, etc. will
> keep working and won't loose interest in the KDE project because they have
> to idle around.
> And of course this would give us more time for the developers to work on
> KDE 4.0: While preparing a 3.5 release might take about 4-5 months
> programmers can use this time to work on porting kdelibs/base and cleaning
> up the API already. Once this would be done and KDE 3.5 is released there
> would be additional 8-9 months left to port applications, do bugfixing etc.
> So in total KDE 4.0 work would cover about 13-14 months which wouldn't be
> noted by the public at all. If we would work for 14 months w/o releasing
> any further software in the meantime then this would at least create bad PR
> for our project and hurt our project severely.
>
> That's why I vote for a KDE 3.5 release.

This sounds very reasonable.
To keep problems to a minimum, kdelibs should stay frozen except for bugfixes, 
so app developers will never have to update kdelibs to keep their apps 
working. IOW all 3.5 apps should work with KDE 3.4 too.

Bye
Alex
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