[Kmymoney-devel] Version 3.97 - Announcement draft

[aga]

Hi Alvaro

Just a few minor suggestions regarding the wording.

In the paragraph commencing "Over 30 bugs have been fixed..." , at the end, 
replace "which we hope to attend to on its due time." with "which we hope to 
attend to in due course."

In the following paragraph, line nine, replace the word "less" with "fewer", 
as it is referring to a numerical value.

Finally, in the last paragraph, replace "....improvements we found...." with  
"....improvements we made....".

Allan

On Sunday 28 Mar 2010 03:01:38 Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
> Hello all, here is the draft for the announcement of the 3.97 release.
> Please review and point to any errors, ommisions, areas which need
> improvement, etc.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> KMyMoney releases third beta for KDE4 and maintenance version for KDE3
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The KMyMoney Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of
> version 3.97 of KMyMoney. This is the third beta release for the KDE4
> platform, and probably our last beta before the first candidate
> release.
> As with previous releases, this version is still considered beta and
> not recommended for general use. We continue to get feedback from the
> community and find those issues that are not immediately apparent
> during development.
> 
> This release has seen a lot of work in two different areas. The first,
> and probably most important to users, is fixing bugs. The second is to
> continue porting pieces of the code away from Qt3Support to a full
> KDE4 native mode.
> 
> Over 30 bugs have been fixed, new and old, during this release, from
> trivial one-liner quirks to more complicated ones, like porting whole
> widgets due to small incompatibilities with KDE SC 4.4. As for the
> previous release, only 8 bugs remain open at this point. We do have a
> lot more wishlist items, which we hope to attend to on its due time.
> 
> The account and category selectors, among others, have been ported to
> a KDE4-native mode. From a user's perspective, there will be no
> apparent change other than some style improvements, and that's how it
> should be. From a development point of view, however, it is important,
> because eventually all similar widgets will follow the same path.
> Several other minor lists and widgets have been ported. So far, it has
> been a learning experience, which the team is leveraging to plan
> future steps of the port. An outstanding aspect of the port is that we
> usually end up with less lines of code than we previously had, and
> with more readable and maintainable code, which is a good trend and it
> shows the advantages of using the new frameworks offered by the KDE4
> platform.
> 
> There continues to be constant feedback and joint work with the
> packagers in different distributions, which shows in better and more
> stable packages in the main distributions. Also, we are improving our
> communication with them to help in bug fixing and triaging, which
> eases their work and helps us get more feedback, which in turn results
> in more bugs fixed and a better packaging and easier installation
> methods for users.
> 
> For those still using the KDE3 platform version, the team has also
> released version 1.0.4. This maintenance release contains some fixes
> and improvements we found during the development of the KDE4 version
> and backported to it.
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