Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Is it cold in here, or is just me?

Tomorrow the 25th (or, today the 25th, depending on when and where you are reading this ;) is when the feature and message freeze happens for the KDE Software Compilation v4.4. To quote from the schedule:

"Trunk is frozen for all feature commits, even those listed in the planned feature document. Only bug fixes are allowed. Binary compatibility for new API is not yet required.
[...]
All translated messages (GUI strings) are frozen on this date. Only previously untranslated strings or clear errors in strings can be fixed. No major new strings changes should be done. It is ok to remove strings. Exception: Artwork (try to keep the number of new strings low anyways)."


That means that if you haven't got a feature ready for merging yet, it's 4.5 material. If you have things in the kdereview module, please either move them to their final destination for 4.4, into extragear or back into playground. If you move something back to playground, you can move it back into kdereview when 4.5 opens up.

I spent the day clearing out the Plasma area of kdereview (there is one item left, it will probably move either into extragear or playground tomorrow), but there is still quite a list of items in there, including:


  • controlflowgraph

  • device-automounter

  • ktimechooser

  • networkmanagement

  • polkit-qt-1

  • solid-sysclass

  • nepomuk-activities-service

  • PolicyKit-kde

  • guiplatformplugin_kde



If any of the above are your babies, please ensure they get dealt with quickly so I don't have to bug you about it. :)

Onwards to 4.4, and the feature completion, polishing and bug hunting season! Woo! :)

8 comments:

Ivan Čukić said...

Moved nepomuk-activities-service back to playground. BTW, I'm in progress of making a fancy KIO for activities:// ... I'll blog about it soon.

Lucas Nunes Almeida da Silva said...

Goodnight aseigo.
I have watched constantly page provided resources kde 4.4 (not yet got used to the new names hehe), what will happen with the resources in process? because I see many of the features are in progress.
Could you explain?

Aaron J. Seigo said...

@Ivan Čukić: ok, good to know. guess we nurse the activities thing on into 4.5. :)

@Lucas Nunes Almeida da Silva: "what will happen with the resources in process? "

many of the items marked "in progress" are actually already done, but haven't been updated.

many more are mostly done, and will be completed before the release candidates. it's ok to finish or polish up a feature that's already in there, you just can't start new features after the feature freeze. it's also when we go through and work on bugs in the new features (and old features, for that matter)

some, however, will get punted to 4.5. those would be the ones that haven't been started or won't be able to mature enough in time for 4.4RC1.

Fri13 said...

Aaron, I would like to email to you a graphic image what I made (i was bored) about this KDE branding thing. I just could not find your email address anywhere and I would not like to post the picture anywhere public place.

Idea was just to offer something what could be placed to wikipedia etc. If it is not good enough you can always "order" "official" KDE artists to make it better etc.

esben said...

controlflowgraph is a kdevelop-thing, so I'm not sure it belongs on your list.

burkeone said...

Too bad, Device-automounter sounds interesting enough for me that I want it to be in 4.4...ahm, I mean SC 4.4. What exactly is this?

Lucas Nunes Almeida da Silva said...

Mostrar romanização
Aseigo understand, it actually makes me very happy because I see many very interesting features in progress and feared they would not come in 4.4 (I said right?)
One thing that is pleasing me in this version many of the items promised are being made and most already have their status as done.
And just to remind you once asked about how to install 4.4 in kubuntu, as you can not install OpenSuse 11.2 and have been following the development and I can say that in some areas have a huge breakthrough.
Congratulations to all the team.

workman161 said...

Yup, I moved device-automounter in.