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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Development Policy
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2002-03-09 15:55:47
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On Saturday 09 March 2002 10:59, Thomas Zander wrote:
> KDE3.0 is not the end of the world, new features and bugfixes will be
> done a week after release, I am sure.

And that is exactly where I see the problem. Bugfixes a week _after_ 
release are a bit late, aren't they? Of course for us the bug will then 
be fixed immediately but e.g. for the people buying SuSE 8.0 (which 
will include KDE 3.0) those bugs most likely won't be fixed until SuSE 
8.1 is released (Most people don't upgrade via ftp or whatever.). And 
that means that they will have to live with those bugs for at least 6 
months.

> The API however is going to be frozen for quite some time, this is
> the main objective; a stable API.

And that's a very good thing. So now that the API is finally stable 
let's release a Beta 3 or a *real* *public* RC. IMO there wasn't enough 
time to find and fix bugs which might have crept in after Beta 2.

> I conclude that I like KDE3 to be released soon, its time to put our
> baby into the world. Trust your co-developers to do what they like
> and are good at; produce good code.

Trust is good, but checking is better. Therefore I would prefer a public 
RC. Because of some big changes which were made after Beta 2 KDE 3 
hasn't really been tested by a lot of people. Normal users will find 
bugs in places we never imagined existed. So let's give those users who 
dare to test a RC the time to find those bugs and then after fixing the 
bugs let's release a very stable KDE 3.0 which can be used by all of 
our users for a long time with much content and without the need to 
upgrade one or two weeks after the release.

> Thank you Dirk.

Yes, thank you very much so far. But as you, Thomas, already said 
yourself "it's not over yet".

Regards,
Ingo

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