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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Upcoming 2.2 release schedule, bickering and bugs
From:       m_elter () t-online ! de (Matthias Elter)
Date:       2001-06-21 14:52:59
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On Thursday 21 June 2001 16:15, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:41:58PM +0200, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 June 2001 08:11, George Staikos wrote:
> > >    Now this brings me up to my major point.  I really feel that we
> > > should delay the release of 2.2 by approximately another month (or even
> > > more if necessary).  2.1.2 is quite stable and usable as released. 
> > > People can wait for most of these new features in 2.2, and quite
> > > honestly, I think 2.2 still needs to cook.  I've seen all kinds of new
> > > code crammed in at the end here, and I'm sure it's not all done or "bug
> > > free" (whatever that means) yet.
> >
> > Please don't delay 2.2. We should stick to our release plan. When the
> > beta is out, we still have a month for fixing bugs. If this shouldn"t be
> > enough and after this month of all developers only working on bug fixes
> > and not adding new features KDE is still not stable enough, we can still
> > decide to release a second beta instead of the final 2.2.
> >
> > To delay the release now would only lead to people adding more last
> > minute features and introducing new potential bugs. The sooner we get 2.2
> > out the sooner we can start working on better solutions, which require
> > major changes of the code. I don't think that just before a release is a
> > good time to cleanup code. We should just get KDE as stable as possible
> > and do it "the right way", when we have more time and no pressing release
> > date.
>
> I fully agree.

Same for me. It's funny how the same old concerns are raised before _every_ 
release of KDE. Software is never perfect. Everybody will do his best to make 
sure KDE 2.2 will be as perfect as possible and thats it.

Greetings,
Matthias

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