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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Next release called 1.2?
From:       Robert Williams <rwilliams () jrc-utah ! com>
Date:       1999-08-24 19:27:15
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I vote for 1.2.   The arguments come out in favor of a 1.2.    And it looks
like only 2 people are for 1.1.2 and the rest 1.2?

1.1.2 was never officially decided for the next KDE.



Troy Engel wrote:

> Andreas Krogh wrote:
> >
> > I think KDevelop, KDbg + the hi-color icons just isn't enough for the
> > desktop-user(remember, we have now a _LOT_ of KDE/Linux users who are
> > not programmers), and adds no new functionallity to the avarage user.
> > Hense kde-1.1.2 and not 1.2.
>
> Ahh, but that's where it starts.  Get kdevelop and kdbg into the hands
> on non-programmers, and you'll find that 20-30% of those turn out to be
> interested (given that kdevelop makes things so easy to get started) and
> we end up having more apps for the desktop.  Especially since folks
> nowadays are including their kdevelop-workspace files in the tarballs,
> it's trivial to fire up kdevelop against some source and help fix bugs.
>
> In the theory of version numbering (I'm a CM guy in Real Life(tm) - not
> that I'm any goo, but I do it <g>) it's major.minor.bugfix.build for
> most things.  KDE 1.1.1 was, IMO, misappropriately labeled as a bugfix
> since it was much more than that.  KDE 1.2 is a more appropriate release
> label for the amount of work that has gone in; there's a point at which
> so many bugfixes consitutes a feature release, instead of a bugfix
> release (from "Software Methodology").
>
> 1.2 would seem appropriate to me, both to the credit of the team and in
> the public eye.
>
> 2 cents,
> -te
>
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