Newsflash March 2005

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Topics covered:
- - KDE 3.3.2 in stable tree
- - New versioning scheme
- - Event: Chemnitzer Linux Days
- - Subversion trouble
- - PHP - MySQL trouble
- - Statistics


KDE 3.3.2 in stable tree

Tobias Hintze updated KDE to version 3.3.2 in the stable tree. This version
has proven its stability and has been thoroughly tested.
The update to 3.4.0 was not made because there are already several known bugs
in that version so that it doesn't deserve the title "stable."
http://www.rocklinux.net/lurker/message/20050301.183802.9c7955e2.html


New versioning scheme

With the update of KDE 3.3.2 the difference in packages within the 2.0 tree
got too big for a simple patchlevel release. Tobias Hintze suggested using
the major number '2' for the current stable tree and the major number '3'
for the upcoming stable tree (formerly known as 2.1-dev).
There were no objections and the version in the development branch was changed
to 'TRUNK' as to avoid future versioning confusion
http://www.rocklinux.net/lurker/message/20050302.140013.c9f684a9.html


Event: Chemnitzer Linux Days

Daniel Jahre and Benjamin Schieder represented ROCK at the Chemnitzer Linux
Days 2005. Their reports can be found here:
Day 1: http://www.rocklinux.net/lurker/message/20050306.085905.43fb0953.html
Day 2: http://www.rocklinux.net/lurker/message/20050307.114024.0b68da70.html


Subversion trouble

There was some ongoing trouble with the subversion server hosting ROCK and
related projects. A few revisions got lost and had to be checked in again.
For speed the backend was changed from bdb to fsfs.
Everyone who hasn't done so already is urgently asked to do a clean checkout
again!
http://www.rocklinux.net/lurker/message/20050308.141545.392eb1ce.html


Statistics:

New       Patches: 162
Applied   Patches:  64
Discarded Patches:  19
Difference in open Patches: +79
Changes in ROCK 2.1: 67
Changes in ROCK 2.0:  2
Changes in ROCKDoc : 18

ROCKDoc statistics (according to wc(1)):
Characters:     103997
Words:           15299
Lines:            2168
Longest line:      717
Pages:              51


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