On Wednesday 12 November 2003 14:13, Andras Mantia wrote: > shouldn't be the goal. The goal should be fixing those bugs. Sure. But we have to draw a line somewhere, otherwise we'll never release. > > > > I don't know if you actually figured, but if you read kde-cvs, _many_ > > of that little patches turn out to break another aspect or do not compile, > > or have to be discussed, etc. > Than the solution would be not do forbid bugfixing, but to enforce somehow > people to send patches to (the corresponding) mailing lists prior to > committing. There is always a risk that touching a code for whatever reason > breaks it in another aspect, but if we avoid code touching we will stagnate. Well, stagnating is part of the release cycle. As I said: draw a line somewhere and stagnate on that level for some weeks. Not too long of course, but long enough to get a real overview how good it is. Currently it's more like "oh, you're using 16h hour old code, you better update." Greetings, Stephan -- There may be no I in TEAM, but a M and an E.