From kde-devel  Sun Jan 06 05:13:46 2008
From: Michael Pyne <mpyne () purinchu ! net>
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:13:46 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KDE4, Ready to 11/01?
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On Saturday 05 January 2008, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Joshua J. Berry wrote:
> >Release quality? =C2=A0No way.
>
> Please read Aaron's blog for more information:
> http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/01/talking-bluntly.html

I'll also note that this was the same type of mentality applied to the Linu=
x=20
2.6.0 release.  There were all the 2.5 releases to test with of course, and=
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I'm sure it received more testing before release than KDE 4.0.0 but=20
eventually Linus decided to release 2.6.0 even though he knew there were be=
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bugs and regressions.  The reason was because if you don't release, it=20
doesn't get tested, simple as that.

In our case of course, lack of testing isn't the only problem as we knew ab=
out=20
many bugs before release.  But the release also clears the way for=20
application development and it lets us know which bugs are the most serious=
=20
(bugs which seem serious to developers may be less so to most users, and vi=
ce=20
versa).

So as much as I would have liked this to be a higher-quality release, I'm=20
proud of what we've accomplished and I agree with the decision to release. =
=20
The time has come, it doesn't make sense to hold off forever.

(Besides, did you notice the incredible commit rate before the tag freeze? =
 A=20
deadline helps, uh, motivate developers. ;)

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne

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