> On 16 November 2011 16:09, Timothy Pearson
> <kb9vqf@...>wrote:
>
>> > On 16 November 2011 15:59, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 16 November 2011 14:22, Timothy Pearson
>> >> <kb9vqf@...>wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> > As I discussed with Timothy close to the release date, doing more
>> QA
>> >>> for
>> >>> > the next release seems necessary since there are quite a few bugs
>> not
>> >>> > present on the last KDE release but present on Trinity. I'm
>> available
>> >>> to
>> >>> > help testing and bug reporting, hopefully also for bug fixing.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Best regards,
>> >>> > Tiago
>> >>>
>> >>> On this topic I would like to announce that R14.0 will be a bugfix
>> >>> release
>> >>> only.  No large new features within the core system will be
>> accepted.
>> >>>
>> >>> However, there are a couple of applications that we should include
>> in
>> >>> R14.0.  kvpnc springs to mind due to NetworkManager's recent API
>> change
>> >>> and tendency to fail even with the Gnome nm-applet, and there are
>> more
>> >>> requests for useful applications on the bugtracker.
>> >>>
>> >>> Tim
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >> What o
>> >>
>> >
>> > Seems my message was truncated.
>> >
>> > What of samelians recent progress regarding UPower, and the HAL
>> > replacement?
>> >
>> > Calvin Morrison
>> >
>>
>> I was unaware of this progress.  Link please? :-)
>>
>> We have to be careful.  If HAL is replaced the QA period will be quite
>> long, probably many months, just to make sure that it works 100% in all
>> circumstances.  My gut instinct is to wait for R15.0, but I need to see
>> what Serghei has done first.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
> Do you intend this release to be shorter than 6 months?
>

No.  I intend to have a lot of the bugs fixed; at this point there are
well over a hundred bugs open.  This will take time to rectify.

Also, I am not allowing another release to be shoved out the door like
3.5.13 was.  I am allocating ample QA time so as not to ship another buggy
release.

Tim