openSUSE 11.1 Roadmap posted

With openSUSE 11.0 out the door, it's time to start thinking about
openSUSE 11.1. The public release of openSUSE 11.1 is scheduled for
December 18, 2008, six months after the release of openSUSE 11.0.

The full schedule for the release cycle is as follows:

Thu, Jul 24     openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1
Thu, Aug 21     openSUSE 11.1 Alpha2
Thu, Sep 18     openSUSE 11.1 Beta1 - snapshot release
Thu, Oct 02     openSUSE 11.1 Beta2 - snapshot release
Thu, Oct 16     openSUSE 11.1 Beta3 - snapshot release
Thu, Oct 30     openSUSE 11.1 Beta4 - snapshot release
Thu, Nov 13     openSUSE 11.1 RC1 - snapshot release
Thu, Nov 27     openSUSE 11.1 RC2 - snapshot release
Thu, Dec  4     openSUSE 11.1 GM - final release
Thu, Dec 18     openSUSE 11.1 public release

This is, of course, a tentative schedule. Any critical or
show-stopping bugs may delay betas and release candidates.

Note that all release dates are on Thursdays. Check-in deadlines for
base/core packages, or those that have a long list of dependencies,
are on Fridays at 15:00 CET. The check-in deadlines for "leaf"
packages are on Mondays preceding the release at 17:00 CET.

Major areas of interest in this release include:

* KDE: KDE 4.1 (TBD: KDE 3.5.x)
* Continued improvement in the software update stack
* GNOME 2.24
* Linux kernel 2.6.27+

Want to get involved? The start of a release cycle is a great time to
get involved in openSUSE development. See the How to Participate page
on the openSUSE wiki [http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_Participate] for
details.

See the full 11.1 roadmap on the openSUSE wiki here:
http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap/11.1

Note that Coolo and Michl are on vacation until the end of next week, so
let's start the discussion on features once they are back,

Andreas
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It would be great if the openSUSE people would choose one single KDE version and support that
version well. Some examples of openSUSE bugs that are open since considerable time and for
which it is not clear whether these will be fixed:
- The KDE 3.5.x kopete included with openSUSE 10.3 crashes at startup.
- The KDE 4.0.x konsole included with openSUSE 11.0 never saves its settings.