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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Updated KDE 4.0.0 Release Schedule
From:       "Robert Knight" <robertknight () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-09-04 11:53:19
Message-ID: 13ed09c00709040453t6f797eecw7c97c3525d3aae6e () mail ! gmail ! com
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> His point was that it is always good to delay a release if you are going
> to get a better result.

As I understand, the delay is not about giving time to add lots of
extra features, it is about getting a release in a state which could
be classified as 'working' and 'reasonably stable' across the field.
Some parts of KDE 4 are in a much more release-worthy state than
others at the moment, that needs evening out.

> And the finished product didn't have working sound in videos so
> they used a mac for the Toy-Story-videos during the release party on
> LinuxTag..

I've been watching my DVDs, screencasts and streaming media in
Kaffeine 4 recently, which is essentially just a few lines of glue
sticking some Phonon components together.  I suspect we will be okay
for sound and video at the release keynote :)



On 04/09/07, Arnold Krille <kde@arnoldarts.de> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 schrieb Ian Wadham:
> > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:57 pm, Allen Winter wrote:
> > > We, The Release Team, hereby announce that we are extending the
> > > KDE 4.0.0 schedule [1] 2 months by inserting an extra 2 Betas ...
> > > <snip>
> > > We feel that there are crucial elements of the release that need more
> > > development time.  The feature freeze (less exemptions) remains in
> > > effect.
> > Once I heard a software pundit tell of a restaurant that said, on its
> menu:
> >   "If there is any delay, please be patient:
> >    really good food takes a while to prepare."
> > His point was that it is always good to delay a release if you are going
> > to get a better result.
>
> Yeah, I remember a distribution delaying their "stable" release for about
> three years. And the finished product didn't have working sound in videos so
> they used a mac for the Toy-Story-videos during the release party on
> LinuxTag... When they tried to blame it on the Linux-Audio-Community we left
> the stage under protest...
>
> Sometimes its good to postpone some features for later releases.
>
> Arnold
> --
> visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/
>
 
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