[Kde-extra-gear] snapshots of extragear modules

[Sebastian Trueg]

On Friday 09 July 2004 10:57, Jeroen Wijnhout wrote:
> On Friday 09 July 2004 09:27, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
> > On Friday 09 July 2004 09:24, Sebastian Trueg wrote:
> > | those are cvs snapshots? that means unstable? In that case I agree to
> > | remove them.
> >
> > Why?
> > I'd say that if people want to try and see what bleeding edge KDE is
> > like, why should they not have a chance with our apps in one package too?
>
> I strongly disagree with this, if it is presented as a beta snapshot. It is
> just very bad for your app marketing wise (considering the fact that some
> apps will be in unstable state and have many bugs and unfinished features).
> If the snapshots are presented as daily snapshots, then it is ok for me.
> Nobody expects daily snapshots to be stable.
>
> > I dont see the harm of having those package - Had the question been,
> > whether we should put efforts into building those packages, then it would
> > not have been worth it, but now they are there, they may very well
> > promote our software.
>
> Remember they can also do the opposite of promoting it, if the software is
> unfinished and buggy.

exactly.
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