---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pau Garcia i Quiles <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:51 AM Subject: Requesting freeze exception for JtG To: [email protected] Cc: Cornelius Schumacher <[email protected]>, Lydia Pintscher <[email protected]>, Claudia Rauch <[email protected]>, Frank Karlitschek <[email protected]>, "Discuss KDE e.V. work done at sprints" <[email protected]>
Hi, Last weekend we had the KDE eV Sprint at Berlin. For various reasons, financial mainly, it was clear we need to raise visibility of the Join the Game campaign in order to get more users to sign up. One of the decisions taken was to add a bit of the Join the Game text to KDE applications. Screenshots available here: http://www.elpauer.org/help-jtg/ To avoid confusion with the Join the Game program, there are slight changes in "About KDE": "Join KDE" and "Support KDE" have been relabeled to "Get involved" and "Donate" respectively. Why is it important that we get this in now? - Because 4.8 is probably the last release before 5.0 - Given our history with 4.0, I wouldn't be surprised if users and distributions avoid 5.0 as the default, or even altogether - This means either the Join the Game propaganda goes in for 4.8, or it will not arrive to our users before 18-24 months (~12 months till 5.0 + 6 months for 5.1 + distributions delay + ...). No matter how optimistic we are about releasing 5.0 soon, history shows there are always delays. - We cannot wait 18 months There are no API changes involved. This is not exactly a "feature" either. Code is available in the origin-KDE/4.7 branch here: [email protected]:/clones/kdelibs/pgquiles/kdelibs-jointhegame.git If you'd rather see it in web: http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=clones%2Fkdelibs%2Fpgquiles%2Fkdelibs-jointhegame.git&a=shortlog&h=refs/heads/origin-KDE/4.7 Given that we are already feature frozen, I am hereby requesting a freeze exception for the following: - Adding a new menu subheader ("Support KDE: Join the Game") - Adding new dialog with three tabs (KJoinTheGame). The text of these tabs is essentially the same as the first three columns in http://jointhegame.kde.org/ This will require a message freeze exception, which I have already requested. http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-i18n-doc&m=132192199114831&w=2 -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
