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All,

The R14 hard freeze in GIT is now lifted for work to start on our first
R14-series SRU.  R14.0.0 packages are now uploading to the mirror system
and we are currently on schedule for a Dec. 15 release.

The nightly build system is currently offline for maintenance.  In
addition we will be dropping nightly build support for the following
Ubuntu versions:
Maverick
Natty
Oneiric
Quantal
Raring
Saucy

This means the nightly builds will be available for the following
distributions and versions:

Debian:
Squeeze
Wheezy
Jessie

Ubuntu:
Lucid
Precise
Trusty
Utopic
Vervet (will come online later)

Going forward, I would like the project to concentrate on the following
goals:

1.) R14.0.0 introduced some bugs, bugs that unfortunately were not caught
until we were committed to release.  We should fix these in mainline ASAP
and backport to the SRU branch (r14.0.x) for R14.0.1 release in the next 3
months or so.  Bug 2233 is tracking many of these issues as of this
writing.

2.) There are a number of style engine problems that still exist as of
R14.0.0, some inherited from KDE 3.5.x and some introduced over the years
by the TDE project.  I will be looking to repair these for the next SRU.

3.) While much of TDE has been brought into XDG compliance there are still
a number of areas that are problematic at best.  I will be fixing the
remaining icon names in mainline as I have time; we also need to be
looking into moving to the shared MIME database as our MIME backend.  This
was made feasible by the recent renaming of the MIME icons to be in line
with XDG specifications and the move to libmagic for MIME detection; once
complete this should resolve some of the more irritating integration
problems between applications like Firefox and the TDE application pool.

4.) Many TDE applications still conflict with their KDE SC counterparts
and/or reference KDE directly in their names.  A number of these
applications (e.g. kdesktop) can be renamed without issue; many cannot
(e.g. konsole).  Bug 1934 contains additional details; overall the fix is
simple and this should be a priority for our next major point release
(R14.1.0).

5.) Codebase formatting.  While this is not a major problem for the users
I have been tripped up more than once by the fact that some portions of
the codebase (twin among others) use a vastly different style of
indentation and bracing, one that is (IMHO) extremely hard to read and/or
modify.  This in turn has therefore contributed to many "fix up prior
commit" commits and/or outright regressions in GIT.  I greatly prefer
Stroustrup style formatting with hard tab indentation (no space or
combined space/tab indents) and indented public/protected/private blocks. 
This style is highly legible, emphasizes the control flow, and produces a
minimal number of non-whitespace difference lines when an if/else block is
modified.  All of the new code (thousands and thousands of lines of it)
that I have contributed to TDE have been in this style.  I have been
toying with reformatting the entire TDE codebase in one large commit; if
there are no objections I think this step could greatly improve both our
development speed and the overall quality of the codebase; comments and
discussion are welcome.

6.) Qt3/TQt3 license.  While there isn't much we can do about this as the
final decision rests in Digia's hands I would like Qt3 released by Digia
under at least the LGPL.  BSD would be better but I don't know if that's
even possible.  I have been trying to contact Digia for over a year now
(off and on) with no luck getting through to a decision maker; most of my
Emails get no response and the rest have ended up on the wrong person's
desk.  Perhaps if all of the TDE developers contacted Digia separately
with the same request they would have to respond?  If we can get Qt3
relicensed under the LGPL or BSD licenses it would remove one of the final
barriers to TDE adoption.

Doubtless there are other issues that will need to be addressed, some that
are not yet even in our bugtracker.  Nevertheless, R14.0.0 represents a
major step forward for the TDE project as we have successfully modernized
large portions of the core codebase and fixed many bugs from the KDE 3.5.x
era.  I would like to thank our tireless developers for their work and
also our users for their support, not only financial but also through time
invested via the bugtracker and these lists.  TDE would not be possible
without you!

Onward we go...

Timothy Pearson
Trinity Desktop Project
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