Just got the following from the announce list:
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From: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
To: opensuse-announce@opensuse.org
Sent: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 4:02 pm
Subject: [opensuse-announce] KDE in openSUSE 11.1 and beyond
After receiving a great deal of feedback on the issue of KDE 3.5
inclusion in openSUSE 11.1, the KDE team has decided to take the
following course of action.
* KDE 3.5 will be part of the DVD media for openSUSE 11.1, though we
may need to slim the package selection for 3.5 sightly.
* KDE 3.5 will not be included on the main desktop selection page, but
will be included with other desktop environments and window managers
like Xfce, WindowMaker, etc.
* This will be the last release with KDE 3.5 packages maintained by
the current KDE team. We are not opposed to continued development of
KDE 3.5 by the community, however, and would be happy to work with
contributors who are interested in packaging KDE 3.5.x for future
releases of openSUSE.
* KDE 3.5 will not be included on 11.2 "official" media or in the
release repository for 11.2, but the community certainly has the
option of creating KDE 3.5 packages in the build service, and creating
live CDs with KDE 3.5 packages for 11.2.
* The Novell KDE team will only be addressing P1 (high priority) bugs
for KDE 3.5.x from this point forward. Again, this does not preclude
community contributors from supporting KDE 3.5.x, and we encourage
them to do so.
We'd like to thank all the people who helped provide constructive
feedback while we evaluated the best course for the next release of
openSUSE. While we know that no solution is guaranteed to make every
user happy, we think that we've reached the best compromise for
openSUSE 11.1 and beyond, to ensure a smooth transition.
Now that we have a clear path, we welcome any contributors who wish to
help out. Please join the #opensuse-kde channel or speak up on the
opensuse-factory list if you have any questions about how to get
started with testing and packaging.
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