Pau, As I understand it, the position of the Release Team is a rock hard, solid freeze in kdelibs. only bugfixes are allowed, period.
So this request will necessarily be denied. On Tuesday 22 November 2011 5:15:41 AM Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > ---------- 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) > > > > _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
