{"id":1276,"date":"2007-09-07T15:34:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T13:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/new-release-schedule\/"},"modified":"2007-09-07T15:34:27","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T13:34:27","slug":"new-release-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/new-release-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"New Release Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The KDE Release Team has worked on a revised release schedule during the last week, and now it&#8217;s<br \/>\n    a fact. While a first version of the renewed schedule had already made it on the development lists<br \/>\n    there were still some problems open with it. If you&#8217;d pick the worst week of the whole year, it<br \/>\n    would be around 20 December, which was the release date in the previous version of the revised<br \/>\n    schedule. We&#8217;ve now shifted the release date of KDE 4.0 to December 11th. Tagging of this release<br \/>\n    will take place on 5 December.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n    The new thing in the release schedule is not the slightly earlier date, but it&#8217;s the overall<br \/>\n    strategy has changed. Just like KDE is  becoming more and more a meta-project, there is also an<br \/>\n    ongoing discussion what KDE is anyway. It&#8217;s a community of Free Culture people, a Desktop<br \/>\n    Environment (a term that noone outside the geek world understands) and a development platform. And<br \/>\n    that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re releasing. So here&#8217;s how it looks like in the new world order. First, the Desktop:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n            October, 2nd: KDE 4.0 Beta 3\n        <\/li>\n<li>\n            October, 19th: Total Release Freeze\n        <\/li>\n<li>\n            October, 30th: KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 1\n        <\/li>\n<li>\n            November, 14th: KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 2\n        <\/li>\n<li>\n            December, 11th: KDE 4.0\n        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p \/>\n    Since a releasable desktop builds on libraries and tools that are sufficiently stable, and since we<br \/>\n    feel very good about the current state of kdelibs and everything that is a bit further down the<br \/>\n    stack, we&#8217;ll be releasing a <strong>KDE Developer Platform<\/strong> already at the end of October,<br \/>\n    together with the first release candidate. This developer platform (sort of an SDK) contains<br \/>\n    libraries and tools to build and run KDE applications (but no applications themselves). By doing<br \/>\n    this, we want to make it easier for third party developers and &#8216;casual developers&#8217; (those who don&#8217;t<br \/>\n    have time compiling kdelibs and the other needed bits) to work on KDE 4.0 applications and port<br \/>\n    existing applications to KDE 4.0. This is all part of a grand master plan which is all about making<br \/>\n    KDE development easier and more fun. This effort is of course spearheaded by <a\n    href=\"http:\/\/techbase.kde.org\">Techbase<\/a>, our portal to all the knowledge about KDE software and<br \/>\n    development. Techbase has in very short time become an invaluable tool for the whole community and<br \/>\n    lower the barrier to enter KDE development.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n    Enough rambling, here&#8217;s the deal: <strong>KDE 4.0 is now planned to be released on December<br \/>\n    11th<\/strong>. The <em>KDE Development Platform<\/em> will be given birth (yeah, it really is our<br \/>\n    baby!) on October 30th. The Development Platform contains kdesupport, kdelibs, kdepimlibs and<br \/>\n    kdebase\/runtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KDE Release Team has worked on a revised release schedule during the last week, and now it&#8217;s a fact. While a first version of the renewed schedule had already made it on the development lists there were still some problems open with it. 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