KDE 4.4 Schedule

[Jeremy Whiting]

On Friday 07 August 2009 1:03:21 am Olivier Goffart wrote:
> Le Friday 07 August 2009, Allen Winter a écrit :
> > On Thursday 06 August 2009 2:02:07 pm Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > I have some people already asking me about the 4.4 schedule, do we have
> > > an answer to that other than the blank page in
> > > http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.4_Release_Schedule ?
> >
> > Not yet.
> > Guess we should start discussing.
> >
> > I assume everyone is still ok with the  6 month cycle?
> > (except annma, of course).
> >
> > Please respond with any release date blockers you may know about in early
> > 2010. ie. sprints, meetings, conferences, ..
> >
> > let's block-off known bad dates first.
> 
> Do we want to depends on Qt 4.6 or not?
> 
> Few new feature of Qt Q 4.6 that might be interresting for KDE include:
>  state machine API, animation API, graphics effects, webkit improvement in
>  case we want the webkit part, mouse gestures, and more.

The accessibility framework in Qt 4.6 should be much more improved also (as in 
it will finally be able to work with orca screen reader, etc.)

Jeremy Whiting

> 
> There is no official date for the release of Qt 4.6, but it should be
>  should be end of 2009 or early 2010.
> The alpha (technology preview) is planed in september.
> 
> So Qt seems to be schedguled a little bit before KDE. But Qt can possibly
>  be delayed if Nokia's QA think the release is not ready,  and we should
>  not forget that if we want to include new features, trunk (or at least
>  part of it) should start depending on Qt 4.6 earlier in the development
>  process.  Is it OK if trunk depends on alpha or beta of Qt? (we already
>  did in in KDE 4.1)
>