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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [RC] Updated release plan
From:       Richard Moore <rich () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-03-11 23:40:04
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On Monday 11 March 2002 11:30 pm, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 March 2002 01:18, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've updated the release plan with my suggestions for the further
> > schedule of KDE 3.0:
> >
> > Monday March 18th, 2002: Preparing RC 3
> >
> >    3.0 RC3 tarballs are made and uploaded, which incorporate the CVS
> >    changes since RC2 tarballs. Remaining showstoppers are identified.
> >
> > Thursday March 21th, 2002: Decision about 3.0 final
>
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to have another public beta?

I don't see that it would be any better than having RC3, after all we can 
always have an RC4 if we find too many showstoppers to do work patch by patch 
from here on in.

>
> last few days there were pretty scare in the amounts of bugs that were
> found and fixed, and most distributions aim to put KDE 3.0 as the default
> desktop enviroments and the last thing we need to have is a problematic
> release (you never know what a bored end-user will descover...)

In my experience there is always a peak in bug fixes at this point in a 
release, as it's only now that everyone puts themselves under pressure to 
find and fix them.

Rich.

>
> Thanks,
> Hetz

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