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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE 2.2 RELEASE
From:       Raffaele Sandrini <rasa () gmx ! ch>
Date:       2001-07-30 12:03:36
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On Monday 30 July 2001 10:52, Thomas Diehl wrote:
> Am Montag, 30. Juli 2001 01:39 schrieb Waldo Bastian:
> > When there are no showstoppers popping up any more I will provide
> > the packagers with source tarballs.
>
> Sounds reasonable. Nevertheless, I'm still for a delay. Mainly for
> 3 reasons:
>
> 1) As a matter of principle: We only had 1 single beta for "ordinary
> users". All bug reporters should have a chance to verify that their
> problems were fixed (without breaking something else). I think anything
> else will make an impression of "not thoroughly tested" -- if it makes
> any impression at all (see 3).
>
> 2) Too many developers/translators on vacation: As for the i18n area,
> we will probably have to drop major languages like Chinese, Korean, and
> Brazilian Portuguese if there are no dramatic last minute commits. And
> most of the included ones will be incomplete and preliminary. This will
> affect thousands of users who depend on translations and are going to
> find KDE 2.2 unusable.
>
> 3) Too many users on vacation as well: A major release in the main
> vacation time will make about zero impression out there.
>
> So why rush this out now? In the i18n area I see still lots of ugly
> things creeping up on a daily basis -- maybe no showstoppers yet (if
> you are not a Korean user), but they are adding up. And from what I see
> in the developer lists I get a similar impression.
>
> Therefore, I would still vote for a RC release which should run for
> about 2 or 3 weeks, and make sure that 2.2 final would be on the
> servers in the first week of September.
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas

True. I was also on vacation and have almost completly missed the beta...

cheers,
Raffaele

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