Quiet in here.. On Sunday 09 September 2007 6:36:25 am Tom Albers wrote: > Op za 8 sep 2007 15:08 schreef u: > > 1) Is kdelibs/kate exempt from the kdelibs freeze on 3 Oct? > > [Ed: since the kate application may need to make fixes there] > > I agree with Thomas, I don't see an important reason. > If there is a critical bug, we should allow it, see below. > > > 2) Is kdebase/runtime/kstyles exempt from the kdelibs freeze on 3 Oct? > > [Ed: since boemann told me that oxygen still needs a couple months] > > Does he know there hardly isn't a couple of months left? If the Oxygen-style > can not make it for 4.0.0, maybe it should be delayed to 4.0.1 or 4.1.0. > I mean there is such a hype around Oxygen, I rather wait for a next release > and have it perfect, than including it now and it looks bad, that will make > bad press. > > Anyhow, I don't think the style would need to make bic/sic changes, > only implementation changes, I think we can allow them a bit longer, > but there should be a date where that ends. I would vote to have > no exceptions anymore without a date where that exception ends. > A "working Oxygen" on the minimum requirements list which I posted here without objection. IOW: no working Oxygen => no 4.0.0 release. So I vote for giving the Oxygen devs exemptions... just like we do for Plasma.
All exemptions should stop at RC1. > > > 4) When is the string freeze? > > We discussed this before, we could not reach a uniform descision iirc. > But I feel a string freeze will force developers to rethink what they are > doing. > So if I had to decide it would be Oct 3rd. > 3 Oct for KDE Development Platform modules 23 Oct for everything else (i.e. the start of the RC cycle) ?? Please, we really need to finalize the string freeze date(s). > > 5) Should language bindings be part of the development platform? > > Richard Dale says "Python and Ruby in good shape by late October, > > and possibly C# too." > > I would follow his plan as he wrote on k-c-d. > I double-checked with Richard and the Ruby and Python bindings will be freeze-able by 3 Oct. So we should add those bindings to the KDE Development Platform. That's pretty cool -Allen _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
