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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Important KDE 4.6 Freezes This Week
From:       Allen Winter <winter () kde ! org>
Date:       2010-11-11 15:13:44
Message-ID: 201011111013.45142.winter () kde ! org
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Friendly Reminder.

technically in effect 11 November 23:59 UTC (but nobody cares if you go over by a few \
hours)

Contact the Release Team (release-team@kde.org) if you need more time (as in a few \
days)

On Sunday 07 November 2010 3:29:34 pm Tom Albers wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Please note that the following freezes will become active this week:
> 
> Thursday, November 11, 2010: Soft Message Freeze
> All translated messages (GUI strings) are frozen on this date. Only previously \
> untranslated strings or clear errors in strings can be fixed. No major new strings \
> changes should be done. It is ok to remove strings. Exception: Artwork (try to keep \
> the number of new strings low anyways). Exception: Typo fixes can be fixed until \
> the Hard Message Freeze, but you have to mail kde-i18n-doc saying you made a typo \
> fix change. 
> Thursday, November 11, 2010: Soft API Freeze
> To allow the bindings people to have proper time to do their work in preparation to \
> the final release, the API should now be mostly fixed. Changing API is allowed, but \
> commits have to be cc'ed to the kde-bindings mailinglist. This is including older \
> APIs and newly introduced libraries/APIs. 
> Thursday, November 11, 2010: Dependency Freeze
> From this moment on it is not allowed to add new dependencies or bump dependencies \
> versions. It is possible to get an exception for this. Post the patch to \
> reviewboard and add the release-team as reviewer. We will check if the dependency \
> is needed and is available on all platforms. 
> In other words: If you have a feature that requires a new dependency or a version \
> of a dependency that is higher than currently checked for in the build system, you \
> need to have committed this change before this date. 
> Thursday, November 11, 2010: Hard Feature Freeze
> Trunk is frozen for all feature commits, even those listed in the planned feature \
> document. Only bug fixes are allowed. 
> After that, on Thursday, November 18, 2010: Beta 1 Tagging is planned. I will not \
> warn for every item on the schedule \
> (http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.6_Release_Schedule), but I figured this \
> one was important enough. 
> Best,
> 

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