From koffice Tue Jul 14 16:37:54 2009 From: Dotan Cohen Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:37:54 +0000 To: koffice Subject: Re: Are interoperability issues bugs? Message-Id: <880dece00907140937m1e94c6a6qb384bf14e190ab3f () mail ! gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=124758951504036 >> Thank you, Boudewijn. Considering your words, would it be acceptable >> for me to open documents in the current 2.0 release and file bugs on >> reproducible display issues, except font rendering? > > Yes, definitely, if you can attach the test documents. > Terrific, then I will reduce to test cases and attach. Thanks! >> Then why is it called 2.0? I thought that x.0 means "ready for end users". > > Well, it also means "all source compatibility with the previous platform has > been broken, but it's ready to develop new applications on again". For us, it > was the clear watershed between "we can do anything to this code, we don't > care about anyone who uses the code except for us" and "if you develop a new > plugin, we're committed to supporting you from now on". We were pretty careful > in making that clear in the release announcement. > I see, it is a developers term then. What is the accepted end-user's term for "this is ready for production use"? I understand that you clarify in the release notes, but to be honest if I were to read the release notes of all the software that I use I would never get any real work done. What is the code-word / version number for "ready for users"? Is this a KDE-wide term (there were similar problems with KDE 4.0 not being ready for end users)? Note that I am not trying to start a flame war, even though I know the flamability of the subject, but rather trying to judge if I can use software that uses nonstandard terminology. I don't want to get myself into any problems because I thought that term XYZ, which is acepted to mean ABC in most software, actually means DEF in Koffice / KDE. That said, I am a happy KDE 4.3 RC2 user. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ____________________________________ koffice mailing list koffice@kde.org To unsubscribe please visit: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice