[kde-linux] KDE 3 Beta

[david]

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> david wrote:
>> James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>> On Sunday 28 Oct 2007, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>>>>> Perhaps you miss my point, or perhaps I wasn't clear.  I have no
>>>>> objection to any of the development work that is being done and I 
>>>>> do not
>>>>> want any of it changed.  What I do think is that somehow we need to 
>>>>> also
>>>>> release a more stable product that is of commercial production 
>>>>> quality.
>>>>>   There are companies and governments which rely on our DeskTop and we
>>>>> need to provide them with a high quality product.  I see a simple 
>>>>> way to
>>>>> do this: the stable release should not have new stuff added to it 
>>>>> until
>>>>> the new stuff meets quality standards.  Our current development
>>>>> methodology makes this impossible.
>>>> The truth is that there are two very different camps.  One camp 
>>>> wants the latest and greatest.  The other camp wants stability at 
>>>> any price.  That camp uses Enterprise releases.
>>> I am in basic agreement with that idea.  That is why I propose two 
>>> releases stable and unstable.
>>
>> The "other camp" is in a different situation than Joe Ordinary User. 
>> If Joe's system won't come up after an update - oh, well. But if you 
>> are IT director keeping vital corporate databases alive on a server - 
>> you can't afford to have that server crash because of some error in an 
>> update.
>>
>> But, anyway, I thought that's why there were branches of Linux such as 
>> Stable and Testing/Unstable?
>>
> Yes but ... (tm).
> 
> Yes, that is the way that Kernel development works, but it is not the 
> way that KDE development works.
> 
> KDE does not supply such a stable KDE branch.

Why not?

> So, are we leaving it up 
> to others to fix the bugs?  Is this occurring -- I doubt it.

Is what occurring - bug fixes? Others doing bug fixes and the KDE 
developers NOT doing bug fixes? Sorry, it's Thursday here and I'm 
seriously short of sleep!

-- 
David
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