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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Developing applications for KDE4
From:       Adriaan de Groot <groot () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-01-30 7:33:57
Message-ID: 200701300833.57832.groot () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 30 January 2007 07:23, Ian Wadham wrote:
> KDE4 has all the symptoms ... continually receding completion estimates,
> no definite schedule, no firm specification or feature list, plenty of
> assertions about how great it is going to be ...  Unfortunately I have
> witnessed several projects with similar characteristics sink under the
> weight of "improvements" to a system which was previously a success.
> I fervently hope KDE4 will not go there, but I am certainly getting tired
> of what appears to be "mushroom management" in this project.

I would want you on the release team. Seriously. Right now we're putting our 
faith in the community's continuing ability to self-organize in order to 
drive development forward. Jason and Tom and others are on that release team 
already.

The idea of regular -- every 3 months or so -- KDE4 preview releases each time 
with a new technology "done" has been suggested in some circles, but that 
really needs a release team to set the schedule and try to steer development 
and effort (also as a foil to the question "gee, why weren't you helping 
*build* kdelibs the past seven months so that everyone could get started 
faster?")

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