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On Jun 3, 2012 8:08 PM, "Martin Gräßlin" <<a href="mailto:mgraesslin@kde.org">mgraesslin@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> this weekend KWin received bug reports against 4.8.80 from distro packages<br>
> ([1], [2]). This quite surprised me as beta should not be out before Monday.<br>
><br>
> Now I concider this as an issue if users can report bugs for a version we do<br>
> not yet expect. E.g. in KWin I had not yet created the version information - I<br>
> wanted to do this on Monday after the release. Because of that bug 301068 had<br>
> been reported incorrectly against 4.8.2 which quite confused me.<br>
><br>
> For Beta 1 this seems not so much an issue, but for Beta 2 such too early<br>
> releases can waste quite some time. Consider we don't notice and investigate<br>
> why a bug fix did not work? And even if we notice we have to spend time asking<br>
> the user to verify which version was actually in use.<br>
><br>
> So I would like to know, what's the reason why distros ship the packages too<br>
> early and whether we find it acceptable that distros ship the packages too<br>
> early.<br>
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<p>Well...In Arch I released the packages some hour before Tom's thread about calling off beta1. You guys decided to delay it only, so I kept the packages in the unstable repo to let our devs test them, but I didn't announce them.<br>
I guess the "Install KDE 4.9" wiki page on techbase did the rest.</p>
<p>Anyway, if you want to blame someone I guess you should blame users not us.</p>
<p>Cheers </p>