From kde-core-devel Mon Feb 14 19:27:36 2005 From: Torsten Rahn Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:27:36 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Future of KDE Development Message-Id: <200502142027.36439.torsten.rahn () credativ ! de> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110840926129180 > > How about keeping kdelibs and large parts of kdebase feature frozen, and > > have a 3.5 release only containing updated apps: kdepim, kdevelop, > > quanta, kdegraphics (and konqy+khtml+kjs) ? > ...and (user) documentation? And WhatsThis-completeness? And speed > optimizations (if there are any to be done)? And an ambitious goal > to bring down the current open bugzilla count to half the current? > And "polishing" menues, UIs, artwork? (I am aware that this doesnt > sound very "sexy" to most who write KDE code...) As a kde-artist member I'd like to add my share, too: Currently Janet Theobroma and the kde-contest team are preparing an Icon contest which intends to add and replace as many icons as possible by high quality icons for the next KDE release. This contest is targeted to happen quite soon. An obvious reward would be that the winning icons will be included with the next KDE release. But of course we can't promise this if the next release is more than six months away. Of course we could always put the winning icons into a 3.4.x release but I feel that it would be more appropriate to have it as a part of a 3.5 release. Apart from that I support Stephans suggestion to have a KDE 3.5 release so that all docwriters, usability-engineers, designers, translators, etc. will keep working and won't loose interest in the KDE project because they have to idle around. And of course this would give us more time for the developers to work on KDE 4.0: While preparing a 3.5 release might take about 4-5 months programmers can use this time to work on porting kdelibs/base and cleaning up the API already. Once this would be done and KDE 3.5 is released there would be additional 8-9 months left to port applications, do bugfixing etc. So in total KDE 4.0 work would cover about 13-14 months which wouldn't be noted by the public at all. If we would work for 14 months w/o releasing any further software in the meantime then this would at least create bad PR for our project and hurt our project severely. That's why I vote for a KDE 3.5 release. Greetings, Torsten