<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Nielsen</b> <<a href="mailto:david@lovesunix.net">david@lovesunix.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
fre, 01 06 2007 kl. 14:13 +0000, skrev Kevin Kofler:<br>> Matthias Clasen <mclasen <at> <a href="http://redhat.com">redhat.com</a>> writes:<br>> > Some more notes about this draft: it puts feature freeze in bold letters
<br>> > at August 20, which is only a few days after gnome 2.20 beta1, and is<br>><br>> It's good to know that some folks from the GNOME camp are also not happy with<br>> that schedule (see also David Nielsen's message about the test3 freeze date).
<br>> One one hand, it makes me feel better because this means the schedule isn't<br>> favoring GNOME over KDE, on the other hand it makes the schedule look even<br>> worse, because this means it's misaligned with both the GNOME and KDE
<br>> schedules, at least one of which is central to every desktop user's experience<br>> of Fedora.<br><br>To be honest normally I wouldn't have a problem favoring GNOME over KDE,<br>it has always been the default desktop but in this case I think it would
<br>be entirely foolish to forget just how major a release KDE 4.0 is. We<br>have users waiting for it like crack addicts and it would look better if<br>we were able to ship with the final release.<br><br>Having the final version looks better to users not to mention it will do
<br>wonders for PR to both have KDE4 as one of the first stable distro<br>releases and to show that we really do care about KDE in defiance of<br>popular belief.<br><br>I hear KDE 4.1 is aimed at being a 6 month release, this would then mean
<br>we align nicely for a F9 with KDE4 and GNOME 2.22. That would accomplice<br>the goal of adjusting the schedule which was aimed for rather nicely..<br>provided neither projects slips their release date.<br><br>For KDE4 to hit on the final devel freeze we are merely talking putting
<br>back the schedule by about a week which if we push Test3 devel freeze to<br>the the 25th of September that would allow us to ship Test3 with KDE<br>4.0-rc1 and GNOME 2.20 - I'm hoping that will provide helpful for
<br>getting testers to start using the release and we can accommodate both<br>major releases in the final release.<br><br>Cut dates would then be:<br>September 19th - GNOME 2.20<br>September 25th - KDE 4.0-rc1<br>September 25th - Test3 devel freeze
<br>October 1st - Test3 release<br>October 23th - KDE 4.0 final<br>October 23th - Final devel freeze.<br>November 7th - Final release<br><br>- Is this insanity?<br>- If I'm to understand Rex KDE packagers get the tarballs in time to
<br>make this?<br>- can we live with doing freezes on a Tuesday instead of a Monday?<br><br>And we'd be roughly on schedule with GNOME and KDE for F9 following that<br>considering a standard 6 month cycle.</blockquote>
<div><br>+1 <br></div><br></div><br>