The purpose of the KDE Release Team is to define and execute the official software releases of KDE.
The Release Team is responsible for setting release schedules for the official KDE releases. This includes release dates, deadlines for individual release steps and restrictions for code changes.
The Release Team coordinates release dates with the marketing and press efforts of KDE.
The Release Team is composed of Module Coordinators, Marketing Team liaison (sebas), and the people who actually do the work of tagging and creating the releases (dirk).
As is our tradition, decision making is an open and public process and we welcome input from all concerned parties, including our partners, the packagers, and the distros.
Please contact the Release Team by email or join our public mailing list. The release-team mailinglist is moderated by Richard Moore (IRC: richmoore) and Dirk Müller (IRC: dirk). They will (need to) approve email sent by people not subscribed. In case they miss something (which can always happen as we're all busy people), please ping them on IRC.
Module coordinators perform the following duties:
Module | Description | Release Coordinator |
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kdelibs | KDE foundational libraries | David Faure |
kdepimlibs | KDE personal information libraries | Allen Winter |
kde-runtime | Applications required by KDE apps to function properly at runtime, such as a help browser, framework (e.g. phonon, solid) backends, and certain configuration modules | Olivier Goffart |
kde-workspace | the UNIX/Linux desktop shell | Aaron Seigo |
kde-baseapps | Essential apps needed to complement a desktop shell for basic functionality (web browser, file manager, ...) | help wanted |
kate | The KDE editor | ? |
konsole | The KDE Console | Christoph Cullmann |
kdeaccessibility | Accessibility applications | Gunnar Schmi Dt |
kdeartwork | Additional icons, styles, etc. | Riccardo Iaconelli |
kdeadmin | Tools for system administration | Nicolas Ternisien |
kdeedu | Applications with educational content | Anne-Marie Mahfouf |
kdegames | Entertainment | Matt Williams |
kdegraphics | Graphics viewing and editing | Aaron Seigo |
kdemultimedia | Audio and video applications | Harald Sitter |
kdenetwork | Network-centric apps (IM, remote desktop, etc) | Urs Wolfer |
kdepim | Groupware | Allen Winter |
kdeplasma-addons | Plasma applets | Aaron Seigo |
kdereview | Staging area | |
kdesdk | Tools for software development | Friedrich Kossebaum |
kdetoys | Fun distractions | Stefan Böhmann |
kdeutils | Miscellaneous utilities | Raphael Kubo da Costa |
kdewebdev | Web development tool suite | Andras Mantia |
extragear | Extragear | Helio Chissini de Castro |
l10n-kde4 | Localization | Albert Astals Cid |
koffice | KOffice | Thomas Zander |
calligra | Calligra Office Suite | Cyrille Berger |