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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Beta 2 announcement
From:       "Steve Tose" <stevetose () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-09-03 16:56:10
Message-ID: 6503d2510709030956x5b8c8401wd0d4f0d79679b8ef () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 9/3/07, Steve Tose <stevetose@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/2/07, Jos Poortvliet <jos@mijnkamer.nl> wrote:
> > Dear people,
> > 
> > I have the first drafts for the Beta 2 announcement ready. This time, I have
> > NOT contacted a bunch of distributions about their plans for Beta 2, as I
> > generally receive the same stuff (Kubuntu and OpenSuse have packages for
> > their stable distro, others only have packages in their development branch).
> > 
> > I wrote about the summer of code results, this needs ppl to go through, as I
> > haven't contacted ALL students about their parts. And yes, it's not
> > complete, feel free to add stuff. I just don't have the energy and time to
> > write extensively about ALL SoC stuff - its soo much...
> > 
> > I have the Dot announcement, and the info page. Both not ready, probably
> > some errors etc.
> > 
> > PLEASE just take a minute, read through it, and mention those small mistakes
> > you see (and the larger as well, of course). It's really a big thing for me
> > if you take this minute, and it doesn't cost you much time, so again -
> > please. I don't feel comfortable letting sebas do all the fixing of my
> > mistakes, he has enough to do, and besides, more eyeballs... you know the
> > drill...
> > 
> > One thing to specifically note:
> > In light of the recent change in release schedule (and some first emails
> > requesting exceptions) I changed the part about "plasma is exempt from
> > feature freeze" to "Yet some KDE components like Plasma are exempt from this
> > freeze, so in some area's, KDE will still see major improvements."
> > 
> > thank you in advance.
> > 
> > Love,
> > 
> > 
> > Jos
> > 
> > 
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> Two minutes or so didn't reveal anything, but three minutes suggests
> some minor changes for the dot announce!
> I would change the 2nd, 3rd & 4th sentences of paragraph 2 to;
> 
> "Now it is time to start polishing these features, <to> write and
> translate documentation and <to> improve the artwork and usability.
> Bigger changes in the sourcecode will now have to wait for KDE 4.1< .
> > KDE 4.0 is feature-frozen now and going into bugfixing mode. Yet
> some KDE components like Plasma are exempt from this freeze, so in
> some areas KDE will still see major improvements."
> (In your 2nd sentence the verbs have been restored, I think your 3rd
> sentence should actually be 2. In your 4th, the extraneous apostrophe
> and comma are removed from 'areas'.)
> IANAECP (I am not an English Comp Professor)
> 
> I'll move on to the info page and see if I have further suggestions!
> Thanks for the good work.
> 
Oops! 1st sentence of para 2 should read "Since the libraries WERE frozen..."
And these recommendations should apply to the beginning of the info
article so I will not repeat...
 
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