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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: 3.3 release
From: Guillaume Laurent <glaurent () telegraph-road ! org>
Date: 2004-10-12 9:39:15
Message-ID: 416BA643.8030308 () telegraph-road ! org
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Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Am Tuesday 12 October 2004 08:19 schrieb David Johnson:
>
>>The keyword here is "releases". It takes time for a vendor to create new
>>packages, test them, document any issues, etc. Vendors typically have
>>to do just as much work for a bugfix release as they do for a feature
>>release.
>
> Sorry, but this is wrong. Bug fix releases do not move applications, they
> most often don't even add or remove files, they hardly change the build
> system, they don't change user settings, they ....
>
> So if you believe bugfix releases are as much work as a feature release
> then you obviously have no idea what you're talking about - or you're doing
> everything from scratch every time.
For a vendor that performs basic user-level testing, then he's right, a
bugfix release is just as much work. The packaging is just a small part
of it.
--
Guillaume
http://telegraph-road.org
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