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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    KDE ROADMAP
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date:       1999-05-04 13:33:24
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KDE RELEASE ROADMAP
(http://www.kde.org/roadmap99.html)

The KDE project is happy to announce its release roadmap for
the coming year. This roadmap is an indication of WHAT we TRY
to achieve and WHEN we HOPE to have achieved this. 

No guarantees whatsoever are given that this roadmap will
have any correspondence with actual events as they happen.

DISCLAIMER FOR COMMERCIAL PARTIES:
In general KDE tries to release software when it has reached 
a certain maturity and when its quality is acceptable.
As a result of this, planned release dates may be delayed
significantly. KDE considers the maturity and quality of
its software more important than meeting release dates.

The following releases have been planned:

1)
Name....: KDE 1.1.2 (Might also be named 1.2?)
Based on: KDE 1.1.1
Codename: Kolor (Colour outside the lines)
Aim.....: To release additions to KDE 1.1.1 which did not make it
          into KDE 1.1.1 and which give more "color" to KDE. 
Includes: High-color icons, more backgrounds, theme manager etc.
          Important bugfixes
          Some new applications not yet in CVS.
Planned.: July 1999
Critical: Release date depends on the output from the artist-team
          being available.
Remarks.: No changes to existing code other than bugfixes is 
          allowed. Should be compatible with KDE1.1.

2)
Name....: KDE 1.89.very_unstable
Based on: HEAD branch
Codename: Krash (This one might be slightly unstable)
Aim.....: Testing out new technologies and getting user feedback
          before it is too late to make major changes.
Includes: * Qt2.0, 
            koffice (????),
          * kserviced (CORBA service daemon)
          * konqueror
          * CORBA based mail-framework
          * new session management
            Integrate database functionality
Planned.: Oktober 1999
Critical: Release date depends on the includes marked with a *
          being available.
Remarks.: This will be a very unstable alpha release. 
          Distributions are strongly adviced NOT too ship this
          without including a stable KDE release as well.
          This release will be binary incompatible with all
          other releases.

3)
Name....: KDE 2.0
Codename: Kopernicus
Based on: HEAD branch
Aim.....: Be the best desktop in the world.
Includes: * Qt2.0, 
            koffice (????),
          * kserviced (CORBA service daemon)
          * konqueror
            Java / Javascript support
          * CORBA based mail-framework
          * new session management
            Integrate database functionality
Planned.: Start of release: December 1999, Final release: March. 2000
Critical: Release date depends on the includes marked with a *
          being available.
Remarks.: This release will be incompatible with KDE 1.1/1.1.x

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