Hi

Due to the KOffice meeting the release process has been delayed a few day=
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The KOffice meeting went very well, by the way. We spent all of the time =
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bug fixing, both on KOffice and KDE core compenents. KDE is in a fairly g=
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shape by now and we agreed that it is time to draw a line now.

KDE2 v1.0 release schedule
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Mon 02/10
 - CVS tag KDE_2_0_RELEASE
 - cvs is effectively read-only now
 - the tag will be moved for _real_ show stoppers only
 - at least two core developers have to approve a show stopper fix
 - RC1 tarballs will be released

Mon 09/10
 - prepare KDE 2.0 final tarballs
 - release tarballs to the packagers

Fir  13/10
 - spread source and binary packages to the mirror sites

Mon 16/10
 - announce KDE2 v1.0
 - PARTY on irc.kde.org

Yes, this means that KDE2 is going to happen finally. After some discussi=
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at the meeting this weekend we came up with a rough post-KDE2 road map:

- Immediately after the KDE2 v1.0 release a KDE_2_0 branch will be create=
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Fixes to this branch will be released as KDE2 1.0.X versions soon after t=
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1.0 release. The KDE_2_0 branch is not open for feature commits.

- The HEAD branch is open for feature commits after the 1.0 release. We=20
however maintain kdelibs binary compatibility. The base applications will=
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probably see the most significant improvements. We aim for incremental ra=
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than revolutionary improvements this time.

- February/March 2001 - KDE2 1.1 release.

- March 2001 - HEAD will be moved to Qt3.0 which is scheduled for=20
February/March 2001. This means that we will break kdelibs binary=20
compatibility for KDE2 1.2, but this will happen anyway due to the new=20
compiler ABIs.

- Summer 2001 - KDE2 1.2 based on Qt3.0

Bye,
Matthias

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