discussion of release announcement

[Mario Fux]

Am Dienstag 14 Dezember 2010, 14.56:41 schrieb Patrick Spendrin:
> Hi everybody,

Morging

Wouldn't it make sense to involve the kde-promo people here as I think they 
could and would like to help with a kde windows release announcement...

> as mentioned in this forum post:
> http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=91849&p=182270#p182269 we also
> have some not-so technical things we need to do for a release, which I
> would like to delegate.
> 
> The following facts should be in the announcement.
> - the gcc version 4 compiler from mingw.org (mingw4) will be replaced by
> mingw-w32 (the gcc version 4 compiler from
> http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/) in the next release, so this is
> probably the last release with it. Similar is the process for vc90
> (Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition) to vc100 (Visual Studio 2010
> Express Edition). In the current release, all 4 compilers are contained.
> 
> - we tried out a distributed release process, where multiple persons can
> take part and fix the builds. This looks promising, and since KDE 4.6.0
> is near (released in the beginning of next year) we will probably go
> that way too.
> 
> - contained in KDE 4.5.4 are kdebase (apps and workspace), kdeedu,
> kdegames, kdegraphics, kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdesdk, kdetoys,
> kdeutils, amarok, digikam & kipi-plugins, kmymoney, konversation and
> quassel.
> 
> - the stability is still not at a level where day-to-day use can be
> recommended, some programs might just work though.
> 
> The release announcements are normally written inside of the file
> news.rdf. This file is in KDE svn, you can checkout
> svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/www/sites/windows to get the
> complete sources (and also to produce a valid diff at the end which I
> can commit).
> 
> awaiting your comments,
> Patrick
> 
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