Fwd: Re: Gideon preview release ?

[Ralf Nolden]

I think this should have been going here. Ok, I don't want to rush things too 
much and as long as we keep compatible to KDE 2.2 there's no reason to rush 
anyway. Let's get things going and when the time has come we'll see how it 
looks like to publish a developer-test-alpha version then. I didn't mean to 
push out an unfinished version but show the progress, give users a chance to 
test it and get some feedback; that's usually what you're doing with a 0.1, 
0.2 whatever release and that's what we have been doing in the beginning of 
KDE as well. Anyway, times have changed and of course we don't want to ruin 
our name but getting more developers interested in writing plugins or 
enhancing them was the idea behind a test version.

Ralf

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Subject: Re: Gideon preview release ?
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 16:54:08 +0200
From: Harald Fernengel <harry at bnro.de>
To: Ralf Nolden <nolden at kde.org>

Hi,

sorry, I vote against a preview release until at least end of October. IMHO
Gideon is not yet usable and stable enough to present it, so if you put a
release out now many people will just be disappointed.

Harry

> Hi,
>
> as we talked about this topic before, now after the KOffice release there
> would be a chance to offer a gideon preview release for developers. I think
> of a timeframe of two weeks when we could arrange binary packages for the
> systems that support KDE 2.2 already and could offer that. The KOffice
> announcement will be followed by the (IMHO very important) release of
> Solaris packages of 2.2 the next days and then we have a good timing for a
> preview release. If there are major bugs known to you such as the opening
> file crash or whatever, I would urge you to go ahead and fix those as soon
> as possible this week up until Sunday I'd say. A status report on sunday
> wouldn't hurt as well.
>
> For the press-release, Andreas probably needs some voices from various
> companies working successfully with KDevelop, there are some that we could
> ask on the kdevelop list who would offer to give a statement maybe.
> Andreas, would you do the press-release ?
>
> Waldo, in case we go for this, I should probably subscribe at the packager
> mailinglist, where can I do that and how; then is that possible to provide
> binary packages with their help within let's say 2 weeks. I know the 2.2.1
> release is under way and so we don't want to set the packagers into too
> much stress if things are interfering with the packaging of the 2.2.1
> packages.
>
> Ralf

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