Beta 3 delayed one week

Again, I’m acting as messenger of the Release Team. It has just been decided that the Beta 3
will be out one week latet than originally planned. This is mainly due to some changes in how
plasma work that we’d like to see in the new Beta. Highlights of that will be a working panel
implementation. In other news, Robert Knight is working on kickoff, which will probably also
be part of the next Beta.

This does give you, the developer of a component the possiblity to make sure your bits work
well before Wednesday next week, when Dirk will be tagging Beta 3. Please make sure that you
don’t break anything and have your code reasonably stable. Do delay unsafe code
changes (which probably shouldn’t be happening at all in the first place) to after tagging
and work on stability. Last time, Dirk (as part of the Release Team) had to spend a
considerable amount of time to make things compile, that should not be necessary this time.

In the meantime, the
list of showstoppers for KDE 4.0 is taking shape. While it’s not
complete yet, it provides some good pointers to where the Release Team would like effort
directed. Fixing those bits makes it possible to release KDE 4.0.

Now listening: Manu Chao – La Radiolina