[Kmymoney-devel] announcement draft

[aga]

On Thursday 13 May 2010 06:25:41 Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> 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.
> 

I had to re-read the final added sentence several times to get the meaning.  
It might just be me, but perhaps it would be made clearer by making it -

Version 1.0.5 *includes* fixes to bugs we found during the development
*of* the KDE4 version and which we simply backported.

Allan