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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Next releases (Re: i18n freeze ?)
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-10-19 14:12:57
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>> As David said: we have limited resources and our 
>> most limited resource is developer time. We better keep it in one
>> branch and make KDE 2.1 even more stable.

Did I say that ? Can't remember, but if I did, I agree with myself :-)

Dirk Mueller wrote :
>grr. how long will it take until 2.1 is released? I thought we wanted to
>avoid such monster updates like 1.1.2 -> 2.0 from now on. 

YES, we want to avoid that.
I think what we should all try to understand is that the version number 
"2.1" doesn't mean it has to be in 4 months. It can be a LOT before that. 
It's only up to us to not break it, i.e. keep a high quality standard on the 
commits we do.

>If you daily read an i.e. intranet web site and khtml doesn't show it
>correctly, will you wait for 2.1 or will you rather just switch to something
>else that just works?
Either you'll update from the sources, or you'll update to 2.1 when it's out,
because it's going to be available SOON.

I see that everyone wants to commit stuff to the 2.0.1 branch because "it's
going to be released long before 2.1, so we want our code out". If we start
doing that, let me state again that it will be a huge mistake (duplicate efforts,
maintainance hell, etc.). 
Leave that branch to the translators and documentation writers, and develop 
in HEAD, _without_ thinking it's going to take ages before being out. I think 
the only point of the 2.0.1 branch is that we can release it when the translators 
are happy with it, not when the developers will have stopped their hacks on it.
As soon as it's out, they can switch to HEAD, we can bugfix it a bit more,
and we can release it as 2.1.

> Harri just wrote:
>So KDE 2.0 is perfect and we'll skip maintainance releases going
>straight into the version ? Or is 2.1 going to be the release fixing the
>missing and broken features ?

In my eyes, 2.1 will be the bugfix release for 2.0. As much as possible of the stuff 
that is currently missing or broken will be solved in that release.... It doesn't mean
it has to be in 6 months !!!!!!

Once again: the translators asked for a branch, not the developers. So why
should the developers start to change code in the branch ?

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
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