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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KOffice Release
From:       Michael Koch <m_koch () bigfoot ! de>
Date:       1999-05-26 13:04:54
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Am Wed, 26 May 1999 schrieb Leon Widdershoven:
>Great. A press release:
>
>Now for download available:
>KDE 1.89 (Krash), 
>	includes the very first pre-release of KOffice,
>	the revolutionary free office suite for KDE: 
>KOffice Pre-Release 1.0 (Titanic)
>
>The optimal desktop solution!
>
>Leon

Great humour. But I think that Krash and Titanic are nicknames for Windoze.
Isn't it ?   ;-) 

>Waldo Bastian wrote:
>> 
>> Leon Widdershoven wrote:
>> >
>> > Kurt Granroth wrote:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > 1) They need to have a "name".  990525 doesn't cut it.  Alex had a suggestion
>> > >    to call them something like KO1.  I like that.  The KOffice KO1 Release
>> > >    sounds a lot nicer than koffice-990525.
>> >
>> > I would propose a name like:
>> >  KOffice KO1 Pre-Release (Titanic)
>> >
>> > It has a name, it has a code which can be mentioned in bug reports
>> > (KO1),
>> > it is clear that it is not a final/major release and it has a cute
>> > name like (Titanic). In this indicative that it is a pre-release
>> > and can be a littlebit unstable:)
>> 
>> Why not just "KOffice pre-release (Titanic)" no reason to make it
>> more complicated than it should be.
>> 
>> I guess it will need to wait a bit till HEAD is in somewhat more
>> stable waters. Releasing koffice without the needed kdelibs/kdebase/
>> mico/Qt looks quite impossible to me.
>> 
>> In the roadmap there is a 1.1.2/1.2 and a 1.89 foreseen. I think
>> it  would be best to aim to include koffice in the 1.89 release.
>> Having  another release for koffice alone which is incompatible
>> with every other release looks very unattractive to me.
>> 
>> If we aim for an early 1.89 once HEAD is stabilized we can always
>> add 1.90, 1.91, etc.
>> 
>> We shouldn't release 1.89 too close before/after 1.1.2/1.2. That
>> way we can benefit most from the publicity generated by the release.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Waldo
>
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>==================================================================
>Immidiate action was necessary        l.widdershoven@fz-juelich.de
>He called his superior.           Institute of Plasmaphysics (IPP)
>                                    Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
--
CU
Michael Koch


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university of applied sciences
Darmstadt, Germany

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