GOAL OF THE KRASH (1.89) RELEASE
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* Stabilize development. 
* Offer third party developers a convenient way to become familair with
  Qt2.x / KDE 2.x

REMARKS
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KRASH will be alpha quality software. It is not recommended to use
KRASH for daily work. Although the API of KRASH should be relatively
stable, CHANGES will be made to it before the final KDE 2.0 release.
It is not recommended to release applications based on this release.
Distributors should NOT SHIP this release without providing a stable
and complete version of KDE as well.


CURRENT STATE
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1. Determine what has to be done before 1.89 can be released.


NEXT MILESTONE
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2. Feature freeze kdelibs in _4 WEEKS_ from now. (15-10-99)


RELEASE SCHEDULE 1.89
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1. When: NOW
   What: Determine what has to be done API-wise before 1.89 can be released.
   What: Determine what will be released with 1.89

2. When: 15 Oct '99
   What: Feature freeze kdelibs.

3. When: 1 Nov '99
   What: Feature freeze kdebase.

4. When: 1 Dec '99
   What: Release of 1.89 (kdelibs + kdebase only)

   --- Everything unfrozen



THINGS TO SOLVE FOR 1.89
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*  Are KApplication and it's subclasses done right? Does for
   example WM modules need a special KWMModuleApplication? I wonder
   why kdesktop runs at all -- it can't be both a KOM- and
   KWMModule-Application at the same time.

*  Robustness of kded 

*  Mico changes (tinymico?)

*  Handling of Styles 

*  New session management


AFTER 1.89
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After 1.89 has been released all packages will be unfrozen. Goal is
to start with a 1.90 release directly after 1.89. This means that
with releasing 1.89 kdelibs will be unfrozen and that after 1 month
kdelibs will be feature frozen for 1.90.


CHANGES TO THE RELEASE SCHEDULE
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If you foresee problems with the above schedule, have additions or have
questions about the schedule, please contact Waldo Bastian (bastian@kde.org). 

Changes made to release schedule will be announced on the KDE development
mailinglists. Once a week the status of the release will be posted
to the KDE development mailinglists.