[Kmymoney-devel] announcement draft

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

on Thursday 13 May 2010 Alvaro Soliverez wrote:



> This time of the release has come, when you have to suffer my
> late-night writing skills. :)

Well, I would not call it 'suffering' :)

Please read my comments inline. I changed some typos which I marked by 
duplicating the sentence and inclosing the word in question within 
*asterisks*. (this might show up as bold text in your mail reader).

Maybe, we can add a link to the release plan on techbase, but I am not sure if 
that is appropriate for a release note.

At the end, I added another paragraph for the KDE3 release.


> Please send me your feedback!


> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> KMyMoney announces release candidate for KDE4 platform
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> After a year of hard work on a version for the KDE4 platform, the
> KMyMoney team is happy to announce the immediate available of the
> first release candidate.

After a year of hard work on a version for the KDE4 platform, the
KMyMoney team is happy to announce the immediate *availability* of the
first release candidate of this personal finance management application.

> Unlike previous versions, this one is
> recommended for general use. The feedback provided by previous beta
> releases make us confident that it is as stable and rock-solid as
> previous stable versions.

The feedback provided by previous beta releases *makes* us confident that it 
is as stable and rock-solid as previous stable versions.

> Throughout this effort, our focus has been to maintain feature-parity
> compared to the KDE3 stable version. We know that many of you keep
> using KDE3 for the sole purpose of running KMyMoney, so we devised a
> plan to produce a version for KDE4 as fast as possible and at the same
> time keep the high level of quality that your financial data deserves.
> Over the last 5 months, 4 beta versions were released, putting our
> developers, packagers, and those of you brave enough to test it, under
> a big stress.

> That has payed off, allowing us to uncover much of the
> strength and weakness of this new platform, and even finding bugs on
> the current stable version.

*This* has payed off, allowing us to uncover much of the
strength and weakness of this new platform, and even finding bugs *in*
the current stable version.

> This release candidate is not the end, but an important milestone in
> that plan. The final milestone will be the release of a final stable
> version together with KDE SC 4.5 in August.

This release candidate is not the end, but an important milestone in
our release plan. The final milestone will be the release of a stable
version together with KDE SC 4.5 in August.

> We did manage to add some new features along the way:
> - Better documentation
> - Works with the latest version of AqBanking
> - Runs in all operating systems supported by KDE
> - Runs natively on the KDE4 platform
> 
> A lot of effort has gone into finding and fixing bugs. However, we
> need your feedback to make the stable release the best ever. Please
> try it and let us know if you find errors, a missing feature or even
> just annoyances.

Feel free to open reports on https://bugs.kde.org and attach them to the 
project called 'kmymoney4'.

At the same time, we provide a maintenance release for the stable KDE3 code. 
Version 1.0.5 received fixes to bugs we found during the development in the 
KDE4 version and which we simply backported.

 
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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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