Renaming the next beta to alpha2?

[tomalbers at kde.nl]

"Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
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>On Saturday 16 June 2007, Tom Albers wrote:
>> richmore, frederikh, deveagle, tsdgeos and me had a -spontanious-
>> discussion on irc about the current state of kde in relation to the
>> upcoming beta. Some of them feel we are far from ready for a public beta
>> release. It seems it is basically not possible to run a kde4 desktop on a
>> daily base currently and large parts of kdelibs are not yet ready for
>> publications. For example all the file dialogs, we also know we have some
>> problems with kssl.
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>the file dialog is a dlopened affair now isn't it, so it doesn't particularly 
>count ...
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>> Also releasing a beta without key-applications seems a bit weird. Also
>> raised was the problem that kde3 apps can not run a kde4 desktop
>> integrated, because for example the dcop->dbus transition. If you agree to
>
>is that ever going to change? i honestly doubt it; sounds like a red herring.
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>> I'm unable to determine it myself currently. I will look at it next weekend
>> I hope. If anyone has an opinion, please state it.
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>beta will at least get more people trying it out and keep us to a schedule. 

ok, the question is if we can deliver what a user expects from a beta, a complete desktop with some small bugs.

Toma

>the real interesting date is the feature freeze next month not this release.
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