Cleanup of plugins and Release Plan

[Milian Wolff]

Aleix Pol, 17.10.2009:
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> > Aleix Pol, 17.10.2009:
> > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I've just done a bit of cleanup with our plugins. In particular these
> > > > have been moved to playground:
> > > >
> > > > kdevplatform/veritas - unmaintained and nobody uses it
> > > > kdevplatform/plugins/git - doesn't work currently and nobody works on
> >
> > it
> >
> > > > kdevelop/xtest - as with veritas and has usability problems
> > > > kdevelop/tools/coverage - as with veritas
> > > >
> > > > I've also moved the documentview plugin from kdevelop to kdevplatform
> >
> > as
> >
> > > > its useful there too.
> > > >
> > > > So much for that, now the the more important question (and as far as
> > > > I recall from the last discussion regarding whats missing): Can we
> >
> > release
> >
> > > > with KDE 4.4? In particular I'd like to follow the KDE 4.4 release
> > > > schedule, which means hard feature freeze in 5 weeks.
> > > >
> > > > Any of the devs have something on his plate which he thinks has to be
> >
> > in
> >
> > > > 4.0 that'll take longer than 5 weeks to implement?
> > > >
> > > > I'd personally really like to get into a feature freeze rather sooner
> > > > than later. As you all may well know there's been almost no
> > > > development in the last 2 or 3 weeks and I think/hope that a feature
> > > > freeze and the following bug-fixing period would stimulate the
> > > > development again. Simply because at least for me there's "so much to
> > > > do" that I don't
> >
> > even
> >
> > > > know where to start and instead of starting somewhere I just find
> > > > something else to do :(
> > > >
> > > > Andreas
> > > >
> > > > PS: And for 4.1 I think it would make sense to clearly define which
> > > > features we'd like to implement so we can better plan that release.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Beware of Bigfoot!
> > > >
> > > > --
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> > >
> > > I think that's great, it's a good thing we're releasing.
> >
> > Yes, finally :)
> >
> > ...snip...
> >
> > > About 4.1, it would be nice if we could gather at some point for a dev
> > > meeting, maybe it's too early to think about that, but I guess it's the
> >
> > way
> >
> > > to get things done in a uniform way.
> >
> > Ever since I came home from the last dev sprint, I wondered whether we
> > could
> > not do the next meeting at Berlin. I could organize it. The advantages:
> >
> > - good to reach
> > - "nearby" for those that live in Germany and relatively near for Niko
> > - a friend of mine has experience with accommodations, he organized
> > things for
> > an Amarok sprint and several times during the LinuxTag fair, should be
> > affordable
> > - I work at the IT department of the Physics faculty at the FU-Berlin,
> > hence
> > it's no problem at all to get a room for hacking, with really fast
> > networking
> > etc.
> > - maybe some of the guys over at KDAB or from Qt Software could attend,
> > or at
> > least meet for dinner or similar.
> > - probably the killer advantage for adymo: German beer :)
> >
> > Of course the beer + "reachability" would work for any place in Germany,
> > with
> > even better beer more to the south :)
> >
> > disadvantages:
> > - not as cheap as Ukraine
> > - not as good Vodka as in Ukraine :)
> > - longer distances / more time in public transportation, when you get
> > from your flat to the university e.g.
> >
> > --
> > Milian Wolff
> > mail at milianw.de
> > http://milianw.de
> >
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> 
> I was in a kdebindings meeting in berin (KDAB offices) and it was great.
> Plenty of places for food, plenty of beer and a good place to stay.
> It's not a secret that berlin is a good place for such meetings though :P

Yeah, we could probably also ask KDAB for hacking space! I'll actually apply 
for a internship there, Till gave me an OK last time I met him, though still 
have to write the application... I hope to get it finished during the weekend 
and maybe I'll get in better contact with them.

-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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