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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Preparing for KDE2.2beta1
From:       aleXXX <alexander.neundorf () rz ! tu-ilmenau ! de>
Date:       2001-06-10 20:48:48
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On Monday 11 June 2001 00:32, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > If I understood this whole thread correctly, the consensus is to delay
> > the beta by 9 or 10 days to fix the current important bugs ....
>
> Where did you hear something like this????
>
> Greetings,
> Tackat

I read it here :

David Faure wrote:

> There's no point in releasing broken things in time.
> Better fix and release later.
> 
> Just my 2 cents.

Dawit wrote: 

> > There's no point in releasing broken things in time.
> > Better fix and release later.
>
> I second this as well since lately khtml has been crashing on me
> quite frequently .  IMHO, holding off the beta release for a week
> or so could hardly qualify as a delay these days anyways :) ; so
> I rather see that this date pushed back to allow enough time for
> people to address some of the glaring issues.
>
> Regards,
> Dawit A.

Carsten wrote: 

> On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 11:49:40AM +0200, David Faure wrote:
> > 
> > There's no point in releasing broken things in time.
> > Better fix and release later.
>
> exactly my opinion. What's the beta for, if you tell users, "well, it
> crashes and is less stable than the alpha -- we know that, please
> don't report those bugs".
> 
> The beta is to let users find new bugs instead of annoying them with
> known crashes.
> 
> Cheers,
> Carsten Pfeiffer

Dirk Mueller wrote:

> There are always bugs more important than others. When kicker is badly 
> broken and khtml crashes on every second page (as it is currently the case) 
> there is no point in releasing a beta because there will be a huge pile of 
> useless bugreports in result and a bad reputation. 
>
> Dirk


Bye
Alex

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