KDE 3.1.0 RC2

[Stephan Kulow]

On Sonntag, 10. November 2002 15:29, Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
> On Sunday 10 November 2002 15:02, Chris Howells wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sunday 10 November 2002 9:35 am, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> > > It's nice, but according to KDE web site
> > > http://www.kde.org/
> > > even 3.1-RC1 is not released (yet).
> >
> > During the getting-near-to-3.0 cycle we mentioned the final RC's on the
> > site, along with a link so that people could report problems to
> > kde-devel. It may be nice to do the same thing again.
> >
> > > What about binary packages for SuSE and Mandrake?  When those would be
> > > ready for download & testing?
> >
> > There's probably no point in making pakages (which takes ages) for
> > packages which have an extermely short life span....
>
> Um, wouldn't this just suggest that the lifetime of a release candidate is
> too short? What are those RCs good for anyway if you don't have users
> testing them? Who's the intended audience for RCs?
>
Power users and developers, betas are those that are tested by a bigger 
audience. In RCs you usually only fix show stopper bugs - not having a final
Qt 3.1 beeing one of them :)

Greetings, Stephan