十月二十三,KDE4发布

[karron]

十月二十三,KDE4发布. 还有大半年时间. 慢慢等吧.


KDE 4.0 Roadmap
===============

Milestone: Subsystem Freeze
Date: 1 April 2007
Goals:
* From this date forward, no major KDE subsystem can be committed to kdelibs.
* The location of all classes are fixed within kdelibs
* Trunk is expected to contain KDE4 code only now. This effectively means
that all scripts processing translations for KDE3 in trunk will cease.
* Extragear applications that want to release based on KDE3 are expected
to move to /branches/stable and work from there.
* The buildsystem requirements are fixed; i.e, must not require a
version of cmake greater than 2.4.5.

Milestone: Alpha Release + kdelibs soft API Freeze
Date: 1 May 2007
Goals:
* Qt 4.3 is required from here until release.
* The kdelibs API is frozen. This means that the classes and interfaces are
not allowed to change, except with permission of the core developers.
* To make an API change, post a kdelibs API exception request to the
kde-core-devel mailinglist with an explanation and the code. If there
are no objections after a week, the change can be committed.
NOTE: all affected modules must continue to compile and work as expected.


Milestone: Feature Freeze
Date: 1 June 2007
Goals:
* The KDE main modules are frozen for new features.
* No new features are allowed, the focus is on stabilizing the applications
and fixing all bugs.
* The main module maintainers must indicate if they will follow the release
schedule or will divert and not be released together with KDE 4.0.

Milestone: Beta Cycle, Full kdelibs API Freeze
Start: 25 June 2007 End: 24 September 2007 Duration: 3 months (estimated)
Goals:
* From this date forward, a Beta Version will be published every month
until most grave bugs are resolved.
* The kdelibs API is now frozen solid.
* Translations are included starting with the second Beta, thus beginning
a string freeze. Exceptions can be requested on the kde-i18n mailinglist.

Milestone: Release Candidate Cycle
Start: 25 September 2007 End: 22 October 2007 Duration: 4 weeks (estimated)
Goals:
* From this date forward, a Release Candidate will be released every
two weeks until *all* grave bugs are resolved.
* After the first Release Candidate there is a total release freeze.
This means only regressions (breakage caused due to the KDE4 port)
or grave bugs can be fixed, but nothing else.
* With the first Release Candidate, a list of languages which will be
included with the KDE 4.0 release will be made available, based on the
usual rules.

Milestone: KDE 4.0 Released
Date: 23 October 2007
Goals:
* This date is based on an estimated 3 Beta's and 2 Release Candidates.

[雕啸长空]

半年多.......

[nihui]

至少有个时间点了！

[xybds]

还以为马上就能用上了，看了看测试的截图好像很不错。

[houdini]

对KDE 4的期待比对Kubuntu 7.04的要大得多。

到年底，还有好久阿

[applnk]

KDE 4 的软件会有什么大的变化吗？比如日程管理软件 Koncate ，在升级时会不会有麻烦。

[davix]

看了 the road to KDE 4，真是令人期待！