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| From: | "Matthew Summers (quantumsummers)" <quantumsummers@g.o> |
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| To: | gentoo-commits@l.g.o |
| Subject: | [gentoo-commits] gentoo commit in xml/htdocs/news: 20091104-kde3-deprecation-notice.xml |
| Date: | Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:41:23 |
| Message-Id: | E1N5hz5-0003pY-TJ@stork.gentoo.org |
| 1 | quantumsummers 09/11/04 15:41:19 |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Added: 20091104-kde3-deprecation-notice.xml |
| 4 | Log: |
| 5 | Commit of news item detailing KDE3 deprecation, thanks to scarbeus for the draft. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Revision Changes Path |
| 8 | 1.1 xml/htdocs/news/20091104-kde3-deprecation-notice.xml |
| 9 | |
| 10 | file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/news/20091104-kde3-deprecation-notice.xml?rev=1.1&view=markup |
| 11 | plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/news/20091104-kde3-deprecation-notice.xml?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Index: 20091104-kde3-deprecation-notice.xml |
| 14 | =================================================================== |
| 15 | <?xml version='1.0'?> |
| 16 | <!DOCTYPE news SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd"> |
| 17 | |
| 18 | <news gentoo="yes" category="gentoo"> |
| 19 | <poster>quantumsummers</poster> |
| 20 | <date>2009-11-04</date> |
| 21 | <title>Gentoo KDE3 Deprecation Notice</title> |
| 22 | <body> |
| 23 | <p><b> |
| 24 | Please turn your KDE radio on, and make sure to increase the volume to its maximum |
| 25 | level for this important message. |
| 26 | </b></p> |
| 27 | <p> |
| 28 | After multiple setbacks we have finally managed to <uri |
| 29 | link="https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287697">stabilise</uri> KDE4 |
| 30 | on both major desktop architectures (amd64 and x86), with other teams to follow. |
| 31 | </p> |
| 32 | <p> |
| 33 | For this and other reasons as <uri link="http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-desktop/msg_a3e260bd0545cb4e763c81bc60f81de2.xml">discussed</uri> |
| 34 | , those of you who still use KDE3 should be seriously considering an upgrade in the near future. |
| 35 | </p> |
| 36 | |
| 37 | <p> |
| 38 | The KDE3 support is being <b>deprecated</b> with immediate effect. This means that |
| 39 | ebuilds are dropping KDE3 support where they were broken, or clashing with |
| 40 | KDE4. |
| 41 | </p> |
| 42 | |
| 43 | <p> |
| 44 | If you wish to still use KDE3, and you want to help others with having KDE3 |
| 45 | around, drop a mail to <mail link="kde@g.o"/>, where we can give you commit access |
| 46 | to the <uri link="http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde-sunset.git">special overlay</uri> which will specifically contain only KDE3 packages.<br /> |
| 47 | This overlay (named <b>kde3</b>) can be easily used via <uri link="http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml">layman</uri>. |
| 48 | </p> |
| 49 | |
| 50 | <p> |
| 51 | Sadly upstream is not supporting KDE3 anymore and we simply lack the |
| 52 | manpower to keep support for both (as you might have noticed in the past few |
| 53 | months KDE3 has become more and more rusty for which we humbly apologize). |
| 54 | </p> |
| 55 | |
| 56 | <p> |
| 57 | Sorry to bring you the bad news and with hope that KDE4 will suit your needs, |
| 58 | </p> |
| 59 | |
| 60 | <p> |
| 61 | <mail link="scarabeus"/><br /> |
| 62 | KDE Teams substituting Lead |
| 63 | </p> |
| 64 | |
| 65 | <p> |
| 66 | KUDOS to <mail link="nirbheek"/> and <mail link="dabbott"/> for helping to put this announcement |
| 67 | together and <mail link="antarus"/> for proofreading it. |
| 68 | </p> |
| 69 | </body> |
| 70 | </news> |