Tagging Freeze in Effect

[Loïc Corbasson]

Am Freitag 26 Oktober 2007 schrieb Oswald Buddenhagen:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:28:35AM -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Friday 26 October 2007, Germain Garand wrote:
> fwiw, the comparison with the linux model is completely flawed. a
> 2.6.x linux release has a whopping *two weeks* feature addition phase
> and six to eight weeks stabilization phase - their beta phase is four
> times as long as the alpha phase. and anything bigger has a pretty
> extended (from linus' tree's pov) pre-alpha life in separate trees -
> heck, those trees often have their own alpha, beta and even stable
> releases before linus even considers them.

He referred to Linux dot-oh releases, aka 2.6.0, 2.4.0, 2.2.0 etc. If 
you already used Linux by then, I suppose you remember they were 
not "production quality", and some things were still quite broken much 
later in the 2.6 releases. The previous release trees (2.4 at the time 
of 2.6.0, etc.) continued to be supported and developed, waiting for 
the latest branch (e.g. 2.6) to become production quality. Numerous 
distributions continued shipping 2.4 kernels not that long ago, and it 
apparently will be the same with KDE 4.0: distributors won't replace 
3.x desktops in one shot but will incorporate slowly more and more of 
4.x, and keep 3.5.x/entreprise branch/whatever you call this 
side-to-side with the new KDE, allowing at the same time enthusiasts 
and early adopters to use more of 4.x if they want to. They will 
certainly phase out 3.x *very* slowly.

Regards,

-- 
Loïc Corbasson <loic.corbasson at gmail.com>