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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: HEAD openend
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-10-19 16:40:52
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On Thursday 19 October 2000 16:33, Navindra Umanee wrote :
>Torsten Rahn <torsten@kde.org> wrote:
>> > I *strongly* agree!  2.1 doesn't have to be perfect, only better.
>> > Let's not let get too carried away just yet.
>> 
>> A 2.1 around christmas is completely unrealistic.
>> This would mean that we would have to start beta-testing in
>> four weeks already.
>>
>> Better do a 2.0.2 release around that time or a release 
>> of filter-updates arts/kmail/knode or kwhatever -updates 
>> in a bunch around that time.
Torsten: read the other mails. There's not much point in a 2.0.2,
if the translators/documenters/you are happy with 2.0.1, and the code
in 2.0.1 is the same as the one in 2.0.

>I thought 2.0.x was only for critical/docu fixes?  Whichever one is
>released just fix some of these: KWin (more more KWM features,
>Mosfet's new default), Kicker (external taskbar), bugfixes and
>docufixes from 2.0.*, Konqueror fixes, sane KControl layout, arts
>fixes, and a selection of stuff that people wanted in 2.0.  It doesn't
>have to be *everything*, just as long as it's a progressive release
>with localized fixes so that a 4-week freeze and beta test is never
>necessary.  
Yes.

>Do people have enough discipline to pull this off?
I hope so !

>Maybe 2.1 is not the best of version numbers though.
Well, it has the huge merit of being easy for users, as opposed
to 3-digits numbers. And 2.0.5 or any other 2.0.x wouldn't make 
much sense at all. I don't see anything wrong with 2.1 in fact.

>This only refers to kdebase (and to a lesser extent kdelibs though
>both should probably be released at the same time)
Yes.

> and docu/translation hell is not really taken into account here.
Well, it should be :)

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