March 8, 2007 at 17:13KDE 4 Draft Release Plan Published
The KDE 4 development team began a discussion about the plans for the release of KDE 4.
They proposed the following sequence of release versions:
April 2 Soft freezing of kdelibs programming interfaces and release of alpha1 version.
At this point, kdelibs software interfaces will be frozen. This means that changes to classes and interfaces will not be made and accepted. It also means the end of the famous Mondays bic.
May 2, Freezing opportunities.
After this date, the core KDE modules will be frozen and no new features will be accepted. The focus will be on application stability and bug fixes. By this date, all developers of the core modules must report module readiness. Otherwise, the modules will be rejected and will not be released with KDE 4.0.
June 2 Freezing informational messages.
After this date, the main modules will be frozen from adding new messages. If you still need this, send a request to kde-i18n.
July 2 Beginning of beta testing cycles.
They proposed the following sequence of release versions:
April 2 Soft freezing of kdelibs programming interfaces and release of alpha1 version.
At this point, kdelibs software interfaces will be frozen. This means that changes to classes and interfaces will not be made and accepted. It also means the end of the famous Mondays bic.
May 2, Freezing opportunities.
After this date, the core KDE modules will be frozen and no new features will be accepted. The focus will be on application stability and bug fixes. By this date, all developers of the core modules must report module readiness. Otherwise, the modules will be rejected and will not be released with KDE 4.0.
June 2 Freezing informational messages.
After this date, the main modules will be frozen from adding new messages. If you still need this, send a request to kde-i18n.
July 2 Beginning of beta testing cycles.