May I suggest an alternative schedule? I think that the two month
feature freeze for an alpha version is way too long. 

1. One week feature freeze whole system last week of october 
    --> Release 1.89 Nov 1.

2. One week feature freeze last week of november 
   --> 1.90  Dec 1.

3. Libs freeze around Dec 22

4. Applications freeze Jan 15

5. KDE 2.0 Feb 1st.


        Lotzi