[Digikam-users] Deleting in Digikam

[Luka Renko]

On Sunday 03 of January 2010 17:51:22 Gilles Caulier wrote:
> I'm agree with Marcel, but i will more strict : It's really a shame to
> put a beta release in production without to follow project
> development.

I agree about shipping beta in stable release, however we have to also accept 
the fact that initial digikam 1.0 release plan was changed couple of times, 
making 1.0 final release out of reach for Karmic. The problem is that Ubuntu 
developers wanted to follow planned 1.0 releases as closely as possible (when 
digikam release plan was still aligned with Karmic release plan) and have 
started with 1.0 beta2 in Karmic. 
When it became clear that digikam 1.0 final (and also rc1) will miss Karmic 
deadlines, going back to 0.10 was also not considered as wise idea, since we 
had many Karmic beta users with good feedback about digikam. At that point 
Ubuntu developers were not aware about very visible crasher bug in camera 
import.

> With Mandriva team, i have more contact, and they ask to me if a beta
> release can be set in production (for ex a release candidate).

So did Mandriva had to go back to 0.10 for last release (due to digikam 
release delay)?

> It's simple : ask us before to release a linux box...

As I am on the both sides (digikam/kipi-plugins developer and kubuntu 
developer), I will take care that this will be more aligned in future than it 
was in Karmic (when my FOSS time was almost zero due to new family member 
;-)).

I will also like to stress that it is great to have release plans (as we now 
have for digikam), but that any change of release plan has to be taken with 
care and proper (wide) communication in order to ensure that all potential 
downstream projects (distros) are informed and can adopt their plans.

Regards,
Luka