- KDE 3 & KDE 4 - KDE-related stuff
Are we fine?
All in all, we're doing acceptably well, I'd say. In some areas, we're doing really well.
I've recently mentored two new recruits, namely Ingmar "Ingmar" Vanhassel and Bo "zlin" Andresen who will hopefully soon become new members of the KDE herd. These new slav^H^H^H^Hhelpers ;) are both great additions to the herd and will allow us to become more efficient in the near future.
KDE 3: We're still fixing bugs but should soon be able to finally stabilise 3.5.8. This took us much longer than I wanted it to but I'm under heavy workload in real life and had to take some time off from Gentoo.
We still have 3.5.5 in the tree but that's going to change once either Carlo or myself will make ourselves remove those ebuilds. If we remove them, this can lead to some breakage for a certain arch but they've known for long enough now: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188857
KDE 3 is pretty solid now apart from some bugs we're tackling along the way.KDE 4: A core team consisting of volunteers from the KDE herd and interested users (that's how tgurr, Ingmar and zlin got on board or are going to get on board as devs. :-) ) as well as some help from interested fellow devs is working on a new set of eclasses (going to be submitted here very soon) and ebuilds (both monolithic and split ebuilds; splits being the new default) for KDE 4.
KDE 4.0.0 will be released on January, 11th 2008, and if things keep going like they do now we might be able to put all the stuff into ~arch on the release day.
I'm going to mail about this again in -core soon.The excellent cooperation among the core team members and all others involved in KDE4 in Gentoo is truly amazing and makes me really proud to be a part of this effort. I'm happy and optimistic about things to come if we manage to keep some of the drive we currently have.
-- Best regards, Wulf
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