A few words about the Quality of KDE 4.2

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday 17 March 2009, Samuel Kage wrote:
> See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186653
>
> It's just not there even when you klick on week view.
> Month view was working without  any problems.
> Thats horrible for every normal user, cause they don't write bug reports.
> And do not know how to fiddle around whith this. For them its just
> completely broken.
>
> But as already said, my post was not not about a special bug but about the
> whole situation. The bad thing is that, as far as I concern, this bug (like
> some more) is absolutely obvious. But Kde 4.2.1 was even though released
> with it. Which means that normal users have to live without Korganizer for
> a whole month.

The packagers will probably do an update earlier than that, one of the 
advantages of having access to the code :)

One of the evil things about regressions is that they can remain unnoticed for 
some time, e.g. if it needs a specific setup to trigger them, certain 
configuration combinations, a specific data set, etc.

Another consequence of this is that bugs can be hard to reproduce on a second 
system even if they can be easily triggered on the system they originally 
happened.

Creating a good bug report or improving already existing ones is quite 
challenging, but unfortunately one of the lesser known ways of being a 
contributor.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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