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Organising Events around the KDE 6 Megarelease Schedule
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Goal

  • To come up with a plan for all milestones on the schedule of the KDE 6 Megarelease and not miss any of them
  • Drum up enthusiasm for the final release in February
  • Acquire more donations and supporting members

Schedule

The current schedule is as follows:

8 November 2023: Alpha

KDE Gear 24.01.75 / KDE Plasma 5.80.0 / KDE Frameworks 5.245.0

TODO
  • Social media teaser
  • Announcement
    • Write
    • Edit, correct
    • Source graphical media
    • Pre-announcement social media posts
    • Publish on day
    • Post to social media
  • ...

29 November 2023: Beta 1

KDE Gear 24.01.80 / KDE Plasma 5.90.0 / KDE Frameworks 5.246.0

20 December 2023: Beta 2

KDE Gear 24.01.85 / KDE Plasma 5.91.0 / KDE Frameworks 5.247.0

10 January 2024: Release Candidate 1

KDE Gear 24.01.90 / KDE Plasma 5.92.0 / KDE Frameworks 5.248.0

For KDE Gear apps that want to ship with Qt6 for this release, they need to be switched to Qt6 (and obviously stable) *BEFORE* this date.

31 January 2024: Release Candidate 2

KDE Gear 24.01.95 / KDE Plasma 5.93.0 / KDE Frameworks 5.249.0

21 February 2024: Private Tarball Release

KDE Gear 24.02.0 / KDE Plasma 6.0 / KDE Frameworks 6.0

28 February 2024: Public Release

KDE Gear 24.02.0 / KDE Plasma 6.0 / KDE Frameworks 6.0

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paulb created this task.Nov 1 2023, 12:35 PM
heikobecker added a subscriber: heikobecker.Nov 1 2023, 6:24 PM

Can we please avoid the term "KDE6". At least my impression is, that we told people quite often about the separate products and that KDE is the community, which is hard to version ;-)

paulb added a comment.Nov 1 2023, 7:01 PM
In T16977#299900, @heikobecker wrote:

Can we please avoid the term "KDE6". At least my impression is, that we told people quite often about the separate products and that KDE is the community, which is hard to version ;-)

Oof, yeah, I feel you.

That said, KDE is also the collective noun often used to describe the software produced by the KDE community. Plasma + Apps + Framework is pretty much "KDE" in that sense. Or, another way of reading it is "KDE" as an adjective, i.e. "the kde 6 Megarelease" can be read "the 6 Megarelease of the KDE community", much the way "the Barcelona T-shirt" means "the T-shirt of the Barcelona Football Club".

We have the problem that we have to come up with short, snappy way of describing this thing in headlines, something a reader can rapidly understand and absorb with no further explanations. We will work on coming up with a less ambiguous way of describing it. It may be hard, and technically there is nothing wrong with using "KDE 6", but, yeah, I get what you're saying. Will work on it.

aronkvh added a comment.EditedNov 1 2023, 7:06 PM

How about something like "Release6" ? companion to "# Plasma6"

paulb moved this task from Incoming - All new tasks and ideas go here to Doing - Tasks that are actively worked on on the KDE Promo board.Nov 1 2023, 8:21 PM

Or "KDE's Megarelese 6", or something like that. That should make it clear that KDE, aka "The KDE Community", is the entity carrying out the release and not the desktop environment or anything like that. And is still short and still snappy.

paulb updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 1 2023, 8:24 PM
jriddell added a comment.Nov 3 2023, 5:05 PM

I'm waiting on sysadmin to reset work/staging for the website, for now pushed to
https://invent.kde.org/websites/kde-org/-/commit/67c04f2182d9b34587a8d0763d5a9d9db439001e

paulb updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 3 2023, 6:30 PM
paulb added a comment.Nov 4 2023, 12:57 PM
In T16977#300030, @jriddell wrote:

I'm waiting on sysadmin to reset work/staging for the website, for now pushed to
https://invent.kde.org/websites/kde-org/-/commit/67c04f2182d9b34587a8d0763d5a9d9db439001e

I started drafting a text for Plasma 6 Alpha and was going to mention Gear and Framewirks. Do you want we fold all of them into one, as the Megarelease implies?

ognarb added a subscriber: ognarb.Nov 5 2023, 4:49 PM

I just reset work/staging

paulb updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 8 2023, 6:45 PM
joseph added a comment.Jan 8 2024, 12:51 PM

For the megarelease I have elicited some party game ideas at Discuss for local communities to play.

See: https://discuss.kde.org/t/party-games-for-kdes-megarelease-6-in-february/9435/3