Renaming the next beta to alpha2?

[David Faure]

On Monday 18 June 2007, Tom Albers wrote:
> Op zo 17 jun 2007 03:31 schreef u:
> > On Sunday 17 June 2007, tomalbers at kde.nl wrote:
> > > ok, the question is if we can deliver what a user expects from a beta, a
> > > complete desktop with some small bugs.
> > 
> > give me a moment to recover from laughing.
> > 
> > whew.. ok. so. the question is whether the user expectations are unrealistic 
> > and we don't care or whether we should try and pander to these expectations.
> 
> I'm a bit surprised this thread has not had any more reactions. I would love to know what Sebas, Wade, Coolo, Dirk, David, Laurent, Pino and others think.

My opinion is that the current state of kdebase doesn't allow us to call it a beta, i.e. I agree with you.

I have always said so, but then again I usually tend to say "we don't need any schedules, we release
when it's ready" and I can see how that doesn't work since without deadlines people (including me)
don't get their act together. So I let it happens, the schedules and releases, but since you asked:
no, the current kdebase can't be released as a beta.

Oops now this mail is a bit too late; no ADSL since last week, only intermittent slow modem...

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