FW: [REMINDER] Upcoming KDE 4.0 Milestones + Nepomuk

[Allen Winter]

Just in case some core developers missed these messages on kde-devel.
Please also notice that aseigo discusses  Nepomuk in kdelibs 4.0 down below.
-Allen

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Subject: [REMINDER] Upcoming KDE 4.0 Milestones
Date: Monday 09 April 2007
From: Allen Winter <winter at kde.org>
To: kde-devel at kde.org

Howdy,

A little reminder of the KDE 4.0 milestones that are coming within the next month.
Comments? Concerns?
-Allen


Milestone: kdelibs Hackathon Week,  15 Apr - 21 Apr
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Goals: 
 kdelibs polishing and fine-tuning. 
 Full API review of Phonon and Solid (Oslo meeting) 
->The Hackathon Week is not a week of free-for-all-fun in kdelibs.
-> It is intended for polishing, scrubbing, cleaning the API.
-> The BIC Monday rule is still in effect

Milestone: Alpha Release + kdelibs soft API Freeze, 1 May
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Goals: 
The kdelibs API is frozen. This means that the classes and interfaces are not allowed to change,
except with permission of the core developers.  To make an API change, post a kdelibs API
exception request to the kde-core-devel mailinglist with an explanation and the code. 
If there are no objections after a week, the change can be committed. 
NOTE: all affected modules must continue to compile and work as expected. 

Milestone: New Application Freeze and Usability and Accessibility Review, 8 May
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Goals: 
All applications expected to be released with KDE 4.0 must: 
 use the new cmake buildsystem 
 compile with Qt4.3 and kdelibs 4.0. (Using Q3Support and/or kde3support is ok, though not desired) 
 have a handbook (that at least describes what the application does) 
 New applications must be committed into kdereview for review 
 Resurrected applications must be committed back into their KDE main module 
 Start Application Usability and Accessibility Review continuing until the start of the Beta Cycle 
 
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Subject: Re: [REMINDER] Upcoming KDE 4.0 Milestones
Date: Monday 09 April 2007
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo at kde.org>
To: kde-devel at kde.org

On Monday 09 April 2007, Allen Winter wrote:
> A little reminder of the KDE 4.0 milestones that are coming within the next
> month. Comments? Concerns?

i'd like to see nepomuk be merged in. we're past the "new module" deadline, 
however i'd like to see it make it in because:

- if we want to see apps in 4.1 make use of it, realistically we'll need it in 
kdelibs
- dolphin already (conditionally) uses it
- there's a SoC project for nepomuk integration
- nepomuk has been in dev for a while and it would be generally advantageous 
for both projects imho to ensure proper integration sooner rather than later

this would entail something like the following:

 - create a kdelibs/kmetadata (or a kio/kmetadata, and add libkmetadata to 
libkio?). contents would include:
	- knepomuk/ for libknepomuk, currently in backbone/knepomuk
	- kmetadata/ for libkmetadata, currently in kmetadata/kmetadata; add the 
nepmuk specific subclasses of widgets in kdeu/metadata/
	- ontologies/
	- rcgen/ for kmetadata_rcgen binary, which creates classes from ontologies; 
needed in kdelibs rather than kdebase as libkmetadata needs it to build
	- tests/ (self explanatory)

 - create kdeui/metadata and add the non-nepomuk classes from kmetadata/tools 
such as cloud widget. ktagdisplaywidget would go into dolphin for now with an 
aim to 4.1 as it isn't mature enough yet; kblocklayout and kautoscrollarea do 
not need to be exported or made part of the public API

 - create kdebase/runtime/metadata which would contain code for the knepdaemon 
and knepcoreservices binaries

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