KDE SC Release Packaging Thoughts

1. the Continuous Integration (CI) System

 - all the KDE SC modules are built continuously
 - no packaging unless all modules build ok
   (even better would be to force all make tests too)
 - the packaging tools run on the CI system generating "test" tarballs
 - the "test" tarballs could be downloaded from the CI system
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2. the KDE Sysadmin Team

 - provides and manages the CI system
 - will transfer "test" tarballs to the public ftp site
 - prepares the public ftp site for bandwidth requirements at release announce time
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3. the KDE Promo Team

 - writes and distributes release announcements through normal channels
 - deals with the media
 - manages public expectations
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4. the KDE i18n Team

 - maintains the languages list
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5. the KDE Release Team

 - coordinates the entire release effort
 - sets release milestones and dates
 - communicates important dates to the community and to distros
 - communicates important news to the community and to distros
 - creates "test" tarballs using the CI system and handles distro feedback
 - adds hot and security patches to the tarballs before the final release
 - creates "final" tarballs using the CI system
 - pushes tags to the module repositories in a timely manner
 - writes and maintains the necessary tools
 - writes and maintains the release process documentation

kdelibs Package Dependencies

Package	Level	Description	Explanation
DBusMenuQt	Required	Support for notification area menus via the DBusMenu protocol
DocBook XML	Required	Required by the KDE help system to process DocBook XML	XML DTDs for DocBook ${DOCBOOKXML_VERSIONS} and ${DOCBOOKXML_OLDDTD_VERSION} are needed
DocBook XSL	Required	Required by the KDE help system to process DocBook XML
giflib	Required	GIF image format support	Required by khtml.
libjpeg	Required	JPEG image format support	Required by khtml.
libattica >= 0.1.90	Required	Support for Get Hot New Stuff
LibXML2	Required	Required by the KDE help system to process DocBook XML
xmllint	Required	Required by the KDE help system to process DocBook XML
LibXSLT	Required	Required by the KDE help system to process DocBook XML
Perl	Required	Needed for building kdelibs
libpng	Required	PNG image format support	Required by khtml.
shared-mime-info >= 0.60	Required	Allows KDE applications to determine file types
Strigi >= 0.6.0	Required	Desktop indexing and search support	Required by some critical kioslaves
ZLib	Required	Support for gzip compressed files and data streams	Required by the core KDE libraries and some critical kioslaves
LibACL	STRONGLY RECOMMENDED	Support for manipulating access control lists
X Sync Extension (libXext)	STRONGLY RECOMMENDED	Efficient operation of KIdleTime
Libintl	STRONGLY RECOMMENDED	Support for multiple languages	Enables KDE to be available in many different languages
OpenSSL	STRONGLY RECOMMENDED	Support for secure network communications (SSL and TLS)	KDE uses OpenSSL for the bulk of secure communications, including secure web browsing via HTTPS
X Rendering Extension (libXrender)	STRONGLY RECOMMENDED	Support for compositing, rendering operations, and alpha-blending
Aspell	Optional	Spell checking support via Aspell	This is not needed for spell checking if Enchant is provided or only Hebrew spell checking is required
Avahi	Optional	Facilities for service discovery on a local network (DNSSD)	Either Avahi or DNSSD is required for KDE applications to make use of multicast DNS/DNS-SD service discovery
Bison	Optional	Allows the Solid predicate parser to be updated	Required by the UpdateSolidPredicateParser target (mainly useful for developers)
DNSSD	Optional	Facilities for service discovery on a local network	Either Avahi or DNSSD is required for KDE applications to make use of multicast DNS/DNS-SD service discovery
Enchant	Optional	Spell checking support via Enchant
FAM	Optional	File alteration notification support via a separate service	Provides file alteration notification facilities using a separate service.
Flex	Optional	Allows the Solid predicate parser to be updated	Required by the UpdateSolidPredicateParser target (mainly useful for developers)
GSSAPI	Optional	Allows KIO to make use of certain HTTP authentication services	A MIT or HEIMDAL flavor of GSSAPI can be used
Grantlee >= 0.1.0	Optional	ModelEventLogger code generation (part of the ProxyModel test suite)	Grantlee is used for generating compilable code by the ModelEventLogger. Without Grantlee, the logger will do nothing.
X Screensaver Extension (libXss)	Optional	Support for KIdleTime (fallback mode)
HSpell	Optional	Spell checking support for Hebrew	Hebrew support can also be provided via Enchant, providing the correct Enchant backends are installed
HUPnP	Optional	UPnP support for Solid	Allows Solid to provide information about UPnP devices on the network
JasPer	Optional	Support for JPEG-2000 images
media-player-info	Optional	Enables identification and querying of portable media players	Runtime-only dependency of the udev solid backend. Support for m-p-i is included even if not found during build
OpenEXR	Optional	Support for OpenEXR images
PCRE	Optional	Perl-compatible regular expressions in KJS	Without PCRE, KJS will have extremely poor regular expression support, breaking many webpages.
QCA2 >= 2.0.0	Optional	Support for remote plasma widgets
Shared desktop ontologies >= 0.6.50	Optional	Support for the Nepomuk semantic desktop system
Soprano >= 2.5.60	Optional	Support for the Nepomuk semantic desktop system
Soprano Raptor Parser	Optional	Support for the Nepomuk semantic desktop system
Soprano Redland Backend	Optional	Support for the Nepomuk semantic desktop system
UDev	Optional	UDev support for Solid	Allows Solid to use UDev to provide information about devices on Linux