From kde-core-devel  Sat Mar 09 16:04:12 2002
From: Shawn Gordon <shawn () thekompany ! com>
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 16:04:12 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KDE Development Policy
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=101569009400709

Let me put in my two cents on this.

I know Mandrake and SuSE both have new releases coming out very soon, as is 
RedHat, but they probably care less.  I hope the KDE release isn't being 
forced because of their need/want to get out these new releases.  I'm also 
concerned that even if KDE 3 final isn't ready, they'll go ahead and ship 
with a KDE 3 beta, as has been done in the past, and that gives users a 
potentially bad impression of KDE.

Can everyone wait a couple more weeks while a real RC is done?

At 07:55 AM 3/9/2002, you wrote:
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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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Regards,

Shawn Gordon
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