beta5 or rc1

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 12 November 2007, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> On Sunday 11 November 2007, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > of course, our show stoppers themselves are somewhat funny (as in "they
> > smell funny ... ") since last time i looked we did no have anything about
> > the keyboard shortcuts control panel not working at all (though this has
> > had the side effect of getting me used to the kde defaults again ;) while
> > we do have some pretty minor showstoppers.
>
> Well, last time I checked the default style didn't support QToolBox yet.
> This basically rendered Marble unusable as people are not able to make use
> of the interface.

heh.. indeed. or menus. ;)

> > i'm dangerously close to having resizable and movable panels. they'll be
> > done this week. multiple panels are there, xrandr works, xinerama works.
> > taskbar and systray both need bugfixes; i wont get to working on those
> > until next week, however. (i figure i only need 2 days to get the panel
> > stuff done, which means it'll take a week ;).
>
> So do I understand it correctly that you think that Plasma will have sorted
> out all remaining issues that are left for an RC1 only until next
> wednesday? Sounds good to me.

wednesday the 21st? the showstopers will be, yes. 

> > > involved with the last few showstoppers when those showstoppers will be
> > > fixed. Based on that we should decide how to proceed. I remember that
> > > this was done for earlier releases. It helped to make people commit
> > > themselves to get the release out of the door soon while at the same
> > > time making sure that we'd adhere to our quality standards.
> >
> > this makes more sense to me: a ballance between "well, let's just slip
> > the date without putting any pressure on our work schedule" and "let's
> > stick to the schedule regardless of what we've accomplished".
>
> Balance is always good. But it needs to be based on criteria. The only

agreed; let's get started on exactly what you noted. i'm too tired at this 
point in the night (it's nearly 1am here =) but would love to help with this 
in the daytime...

> > we should really strive to make a december release if at all possible
> > (for so many reasons which we've gone over so many times now), and that
> > may well mean a big final push.
>
> I'd love to see a release being tagged right before christmas. But I'd hate
> to receive a release from Santa where you get the feel that the QA Santa
> dwarves were on Christmas holidays already concerning the most basic
> functionality. :-)

lol =) agreed .. i'm just saying if we press ourselves a bit, we may surprise 
ourselves ... or at least avoid slipagitis taking over completely.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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