[KDE4] Next development snapshot coming up

[jos poortvliet]

Op Monday 12 February 2007, schreef David Jarvie:
> On Monday 12 Feb 2007 11:52, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> >Am Montag, 12. Februar 2007 12:33 schrieb John Tapsell:
> >> Going to "Alpha1"  next would seriously send out the wrong message to
> >> people.  People _will_ treat an 'alpha' release as 'pretty much ready'
> >>  and we are nowhere near that stage.
> >
> >Then when are we there? Do you want to "finish" the release first before
> > you call it alpha? I think alpha speaks pretty well for the libraries.
>
> As far as end users are concerned, they would expect an alpha release to
> contain semi-working apps, not just semi-working libraries. Is there any
> evidence that enough apps will be in a reasonable state by the time of the
> alpha release - or is the idea that we just wait until the apps are good
> enough before going ahead with an alpha release, and have no more
> snapshots until then?

I guess it depends on what you mean with a reasonable state, but on a 
saturday, most kde (base, graphics, edu, games...) apps work pretty decent. 
Currently, it would make a very unstable alpha with several apps not working 
at all, but I can imagine this getting better the next few months.

And an alpha release would be good for KDE, I think. For those developers 
complaining about everything being unstable ('alpha' sounds usable for a 
developer, right?), and for those ppl claiming 'KDE4 is vaporware'.

Ok, normally an Alpha is more-or-less usable, this one won't really be. But 
being able to show just a few things before a crash (we need a funny crash 
dialog for alpha?) would be good enough for shows...

grtz
Jos
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