On March 6, 2007, Andras Mantia wrote: > On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Cornelius Schumacher wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 March 2007 19:26, Andras Mantia wrote: > > > But actually I find the "one month from now freeze of KDE api" a > > > little bit unrealistic. I'd say 3 months might be better to start > > > the freeze cycle. > > > > Could you elaborate what's unrealistic about that? What exactly would > > be done in the extra two months? > > I have this feeling just by looking at the threads on core-devel: > knetwork, KStringDataListModel, strigi, kuiserver or knewstuff2. I may > be wrong and the issues discussed there could be solved in a month, > unfortunately I couldn't read everything in detail.
some of these things can be added in 4.1; for example: we can even ship knewstuff as deprecated, with the replacement slated for 4.1. on the other other hand, without such a date people will just continue to tinker and twiddle. and yes, it gives me the heebie jeebies to commit to a date that near, too, but that will never change. ;) and that's the important thing to remember: we could write software for the next 5 years without a release for one reason or another. it's time to release: early and often. someone said that kde isn't a corporate project, and they are right. it is completely ok for us to release a 4.0 that has libs and most apps with lots of improvements to come in 4.1. 3.5.x is perfect for stable deployments for now; we need to get 4.0 out there so it can be as well, sooner rather than later. keeping it unreleased will only delay that. other projects to look at: samba with the 3 vs 4 split; ruby with their new engine; linux at the 2.4.0 release. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 Full time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com)
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