Plasma 5 Ingredients

Plasma 5.0 is out. I’ve compiled a (non-exhaustive) list of ingredients and that have been put into this release to give the reader an estimate of the dimensions of the project and the achievement of this milestone:

• 46 kilo of espresso (pure arabica)
• The milk of 3 cows
• a Swiss mountain of chocolate
• 140 sleepless nights mulling over code
• 354 liters of pressurized air breathed during scuba dives
• One encounter with a Mantis shrimp
• The total length of 43 bathtubs full of tiger tails fixed in pixel-alignment problems
• 817 hours spent in front of webcams
• 189MB of irc lines written (compressed)
• 80.000 automated builds to keep us in check
• 2403 bugs in the code that had to die
• A swimming-pool full of tears cried over graphics driver problems and crashers buried deep down in scripting engines, scenegraphs and (the pool allegedly was previously used for skateboarding by Greg KH)
• 5 magic wands
• 800 million pixels
• 37843200000 frames rendered
• Too many puppies
• 7 virtual goats sacrificed during a total of 28 full moon ceremonies
• 450 ml of holy water
• 76 rock bands
• 119 beats per minute
• 8 bits alpha channels
• 52 WTFs
• The equivalent of 3 dead trees in recycled paper
• 2 small branches of cederwood for pencils
• 1 box of crayons

Nothing like entirely made-up statistics.

tl;dr:

… but also some really hard work, made possible by the sacrifices (see above) of many great people.