[RFC] KDE 4.0 Release Roadmap

[Allen Winter]

On Friday 16 March 2007 8:02:00 am Simon Hausmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 March 2007 13:22:20 Allen Winter wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > Hereby we, the Release Team, present a draft KDE 4.0 Release roadmap which
> > has been discussed on our mailinglist the past few weeks. It's an
> > optimistic schedule that aims to release in late October, based on 3 Beta's
> > and 2 release candidates.
> >
[snip]
> 
> Sounds like a good plan to me :)
> 
> I'd like to ask for one special exception though regarding kdelibs. Matthias, 
> Will and Kevin are going to meet with some of us here in Oslo in the third 
> week of April and we plan to do a full API review by Qt standards of Phonon 
> and Solid (and we also want to explore the possibilities of backends on other 
> platforms). On the downside that means that there is a probability ;-) of API 
> changes (function/enum renaming, etc.), but on the upside there aren't a 
> whole lot of applications that use this API directly at this point and of 
> course we would port the trunk.
> 
> Since this unfortunately conflicts with the proposed kdelibs freeze in April 
> is there a chance of getting an exception from the release team for this? :)
> 
No problem. This fits in nicely with the "kdelibs hackathon week".
I had 15 April - 22 April scheduled for the hackathon week, but we
can change it to match your meeting in Oslo.

Let me know what dates you are meeting and I will change the
roadmap accordingly.

-Allen