From kde-core-devel Sun May 11 16:14:45 2003 From: Mosfet Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 16:14:45 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: KDE 3.2 release cycle X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=105266996411015 Okay, I know everyone is talking about this, but I also think the KDE3.2 release date needs to be moved up. I've been using CVS HEAD and at least for what I am using it is quite stable and has more than enough new functionality to justify a new release. I know there is a ton of things people want to do but 3.2 is just a minor point release, not KDE4.0. I'm rather impressed with what has been done already, esp in regards to Konqueror and Kontact/KMail. The reasoning for this is while we all know what is going on and how much things are improving users generally don't. So we look like a slow turtle compared to other projects that do, (unofficial), releases with long changelogs every couple months. Development has been impressive, we should show it off either with unofficial releases or by doing stable releases more often. We are not very far from something that could be a stable release, but even doing an unofficial release would be an improvement from the current process, which is a long wait between KDE3.1 and 3.2. Just expecting people to use CVS is not enough, they want snapshots with changelogs, screenshots, and other goodies. Even if the project just grabbed a CVS snapshot that is determined to be relatively stable and released it with a changelog and documentation, that would be an improvement. I'd think the issues that would need to be cleared up first would be the contact management and groupware stuff, KHTML, and all the desktop file changes. After that it would be good for the project to do a unofficial development release at the minimum. Just my 2c, please CC me if you reply since I'm not on this list.