Beta3 coming up, this time with guaranteed uploads

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 22.05.09 21:44:58, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just a short reminder that we'll be releasing Beta3 this weekend. I just
> talked to dfaure and it turns out that _everybody_ can upload stuff to
> the mirrors :)
> 
> I'll probably do this tomorrow evening, i.e. move qmake+designer to
> playground as they don't work, tag the modules and create and shortly
> test tarballs.
> 
> I'll re-use my template from the not-happened beta2 release for a
> dot-story as soon as the tarballs are uploaded and will reply to this
> mail then as well so people can spread the word in blogs and our
> website.

Tarballs are uploaded, so now I have to wait until the semi-automatic
upload-system copies them to the mirrors. In the meantime I've preprared
a release announcement for the dot, please have a look and let me know
any comments or things missing:

,----[ beta3_release_announcement ]-
| The KDevelop team is proud to announce the third public beta of
| KDevelop4. This release includes some major new features, such as a new
| <a href="http://zwabel.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/really-rapid-c-development-with-kdevelop4">code-writing
| assistant</a>, a new <a
| href="http://www.proli.net/2009/02/28/kdevelop4s-documentation-integration/">documentation
| plugin</a> showing you the API dox for Qt and KDE apis, a reworked
| mercurial plugin and a rewrite of the classbrowser plugin. On top of
| that we've fixed tons of bugs and also did little improvements in all places.
| Unfortunately we also had to let go two plugins from the kdevelop source, qmake
| and Qt Designer integration. Both are currently not very usable and thus have
| been moved to the <a
| href="http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/devtools/kdevelop4-extra-plugins/>KDevelop
| playground area</a>.
| 
| You can fetch the source packages for KDevPlatform and KDevelop from the
| <a
| href="http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=unstable/kdevelop/3.9.93/src/">KDE
| mirrors</a>. Be sure to download both packages.
| 
`----
 
> PS: I'll also try to fixup valgrind now so it works at least for

This unfortunately didn't make it into the beta3 as we had some
real-life-hickups yesterday here.

Andreas 

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