Yet another failed KDE release?

[dE .]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:

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> On 21/03/13 15:22, dE . wrote:
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> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com
> > <mailto:sergio at serjux.com>> wrote:
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> > On Ter, 2013-03-19 at 22:28 +0530, dE . wrote:
> >> This release of KDE (4.10.1), is till date the buggiest I've
> >> seen.
> >>
> > Fedora 18 push it , and so far no bugs found .
> >
> >
> > There's a bug in that pager application, and a Fedora 18 user
> > acknowledged it the day after I filed it. They rather report this
> > upstream cause this's a KDE problem. I never report Gentoo bugs on
> > these KDE issues.
> >
> > KDE is at best untested. Bugs are right in front of you standing
> > on the desktops, and no developer or tester sees it until a bug has
> > been filed and a lot users complaint. This time, the pager and
> > notification widgets have bugs and both of them exist on the
> > default desktop, yet no one noticed.
> >
> > Major bugs persists for years on end with no solution in sight.
> >
> It's not enough to report a bug.  To get anything done you have to
> show exactly how to reproduce it, and this is often neglected.  I've
> seen bug reports with a "Needs Info" ticket stay like that for years.
>  The author of the bug gets an email asking for email, but for some
> reason never responds.  It's disheartening.
>
> You are often told that many developers are volunteers and lack time,
> but the real truth is that they never developed their mind-reading
> skills :-)
>
> Anne
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I always do that, unless I realize the bug is hard to reproduce, and wont
affect many people. My attempt to report bugs is to take the bullet before
the very end user does.
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