From kde-core-devel  Tue Dec 10 12:02:27 2002
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:02:27 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: new RD for KDE 3.2: Stephan Kulow
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Am Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2002 12:11 schrieb Waldo Bastian:
> On Tuesday 10 December 2002 11:21, Stephan Binner wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 December 2002 11:03, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > > > Did the release coordinator become a director/dictator? :-)
> > >
> > > RD= Release DUDE!
> >
> > I thought so (I actually had a look into the archive before posting) but
> > I don't find the new term common or appropriate let alone the
> > abbreviation.
>
> You must be one of those new developers then >:)
> See http://www.kde.org/release.html and look at the last modified date.

Or check here, what I would call the first official use of the term :)
http://developer.kde.org/news/weekly/1999/5/

If I remember correctly 1.1.2 was the first release where tackat was involved,
and because of this the need of a release dude arised. I was kind of managing 
the releases before that, but mhk was in fact the first one to give releases 
a time frame - and in fact I was still doing the tar ball, but only those 
extracting the tars saw the kulow/students ;-)

Someone needs to write a paper, so we get these young lads educated.

Greetings, Stephan