[kde-linux] KDE 3 Beta

[James Richard Tyrer]

david wrote:
> James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>> david wrote:
>>> James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>> On Sunday 28 Oct 2007, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>>>>>> Perhaps you miss my point, or perhaps I wasn't clear.  I have no
>>>>>> objection to any of the development work that is being done and I 
>>>>>> do not
>>>>>> want any of it changed.  What I do think is that somehow we need to 
>>>>>> also
>>>>>> release a more stable product that is of commercial production 
>>>>>> quality.
>>>>>>   There are companies and governments which rely on our DeskTop and we
>>>>>> need to provide them with a high quality product.  I see a simple 
>>>>>> way to
>>>>>> do this: the stable release should not have new stuff added to it 
>>>>>> until
>>>>>> the new stuff meets quality standards.  Our current development
>>>>>> methodology makes this impossible.
>>>>> The truth is that there are two very different camps.  One camp 
>>>>> wants the latest and greatest.  The other camp wants stability at 
>>>>> any price.  That camp uses Enterprise releases.
>>>> I am in basic agreement with that idea.  That is why I propose two 
>>>> releases stable and unstable.
>>> The "other camp" is in a different situation than Joe Ordinary User. 
>>> If Joe's system won't come up after an update - oh, well. But if you 
>>> are IT director keeping vital corporate databases alive on a server - 
>>> you can't afford to have that server crash because of some error in an 
>>> update.
>>>
>>> But, anyway, I thought that's why there were branches of Linux such as 
>>> Stable and Testing/Unstable?
>>>
>> Yes but ... (tm).
>>
>> Yes, that is the way that Kernel development works, but it is not the 
>> way that KDE development works.
>>
>> KDE does not supply such a stable KDE branch.
> 
> Why not?
> 
Isn't that the question that I am asking?  Why doesn't KDE supply an 
actual stable release?

>> So, are we leaving it up 
>> to others to fix the bugs?  Is this occurring -- I doubt it.
> 
> Is what occurring - bug fixes? Others doing bug fixes and the KDE 
> developers NOT doing bug fixes? Sorry, it's Thursday here and I'm 
> seriously short of sleep!
> 
Distros fix bugs.  Should we leave it to the distros to fix the bugs? 
Unfortunatly, many of these fixes are distro specific.

-- 
JRT