On Sunday 17 January 2010 08:54:18 pm Dr. Robert Marmorstein wrote:
> Even if we release this as a "beta" (basket-1.9 or whatever), I'd prefer to
> have some time to put our best foot forward.  Even if it's just a few
> weeks, it would be nice to have a little time to prepare.  Coming up with
> a specific deadline would help ensure that we really do get something out
> the door, though (and it would greatly increase my motivation to get bugs
> fixed...)
> 

You have three weeks. ;)

Seriously though, is three weeks doable? I'm not expecting freshmeat to be 
very fast with my request.

> > > I think 2.0 should have complete feature parity with the last KDE 3
> > > version and upon that as a sloid ground we can build new features.
> > > Maybe we can get it in KDE 4.5 (although it probably will land in
> > > extra gear).
> > 
> > honestly, having had software as part of the KDE release cycle for more
> > than 5 years now, it's a major pain in the ass. It's so easy to roll a
> > release that it's just not worth it, at least from my POV. But that's
> > usually because I end up being able to work on stuff during freezes.
> 
> I have to agree.  But isn't it true that extragear apps are not tied to the
> KDE release cycle?  I may be wrong, but I don't think freezes apply to
> extragear.
> 
> The extragear web page says:
> 
> "All applications in the extragear modules can be released independently by
> their own maintainers or in the KDE release cycle in a special per-category
> tarball made by Extragear's current maintainer. The current proposition is
> have at least one package per-category which compiles against current KDE
> release and have the last stable or bugfix branch releases defined by apps
> maintainers."
> 
> At any rate, we may not want to go this route at all.  But if we do,
> extragear looks nice.  The advantage of being part of extragear is that we
> would have a lot more visibility to the KDE community.  Let's try to get a
> release out the door, get some more features implemented, and see where we
> want to go from there.
> 

True, extragear is standalone. However, I don't think we want to go to 
extragear until KDE moves to git. I so abhor subversion at this point - 
especially with KDE's large repository.

> I think Matt is right that we'd agreed to move back to bugs.kde.org. 
> However, the mantis is still online, which could confuse users.  We need
> to either get Lynoure to take it down or make it very clear that users are
> supposed to send bugs to the other site.
> 
> --Robert
-- 
Matt

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