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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: ftp.kde.org "organization" :)
From:       Mario Weilguni <mweilguni () sime ! com>
Date:       1998-07-30 15:49:45
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Am Wed, 29 Jul 1998 schrieb Kurt Granroth:
>On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 10:24:16PM +0200, Kalle Dalheimer wrote:
>> Preston Brown:
>> >I'm not sure I really understand the organization at ftp.kde.org, and that
>> >leads me to believe that others might not either.
>> >
>> >there are applications under /pub/kde/stable/1.0/apps/... that aren't
>> >shipped in the main kde packages.  What determines what goes in here?
>> >
>> >similarly, what goes in /pub/kde/stable/1.0/contrib?
>> >
>> >what determines whether something goes into /pub/kde/stable/1.0/apps vs.
>> >/pub/kde/unstable/apps?
>> 
>> The authors themselves either declare their apps stable or they don't.
>
>The question then becomes: "what is stable?"
>
>I saw or read somewhere not too long ago that in order for a developer to
>consider their app stable enough for the stable tree, it only had to
>compile flawlessly.  I thought that this was a very curious statement.
>Who would upload a package that *didn't* compile?  So does that make
>all apps 'stable?'
>
>Personally, I didn't consider KBiff "stable" until I stopped adding
>features.  My definition of "stable", then, seems to be "non-changing"
>(except for bug fixes).

Your definition is a little bit heavy to fulfill. That is what version numbers
are for.

Mario

>-- 
>Kurt Granroth
>granroth@kde.org
>http://www.pobox.com/~kurt_granroth
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