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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Feature freeze or no?
From:       Matthias Elter <elter () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-03-03 0:26:18
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Neil Stevens wrote:

>On Saturday March 02, 2002 03:54, Dirk Mueller wrote:
>
>>On Sam, 02 Mär 2002, Neil Stevens wrote:
>>
>>>As in a sneaky CVS_SILENT style in kdelibs, and a new skin in
>>>kdemultimedia, at the very least.
>>>
>>Well, as I said before KDE == "kdelibs" && "kdebase". if developers try
>>to break their application in kdemultimedia 2 days before the release
>>date then its their fucking own problem, and as long as they don't break
>>the building or annoy translators and documentors I don't care much.
>>
>>(Besides that importing a new pixmap style can hardly break the app).
>>
>
>A new style can never, ever trigger a previously untriggered bug?  Such 
>sweeping statements often are proven false, to the great frustration of 
>the users who count on KDE.
>
This is far fetched.

>>The style in kdelibs was imported silent to avoid people wondering about
>>it. the whole purpose of importing it is that more people can work on it
>>in parallel. it is not enabled in kdelibs for compilation and it is not
>>installed for KDE 3.0.
>>
>
>kdeartwork?  Wait a lousy week for KDE 3.0 to come out?  Why aren't these 
>options?
>
Because it a) makes no sense to check it into kdeartwork just to move it 
back to kdelibs in a week and b) they  need a cvs to work in parallel 
_now_.

>Basically, you're saying that the SuSE meeting called off the rules. 
>That's fine, just warn us next time, so we all know what we can and can't 
>do.
>
It's a KDE meeting, we are just using SuSE's bandwidth. :-)

Greetings,
Matthias


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