beta5 or rc1

[Torsten Rahn]

Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> I still do believe that more pressure in this
> phase is good. This additional pressure means calling it -rc1, telling
> people that this will be it if they don't fix their stuff.

Well, I'd like to thank you personally that tagging rc1 tomorrow will mean 
that people won't be able to fully test Marble due to the QToolBox issues 
mentioned. As you can imagine I truely love that "additional pressure" that 
you advocate in lack of project management skills.

As a result Marble will only receive a single week of full testing and this 
only by people who are able to build from source (read: developers only).

Not that you get me wrong: 

1) All bugs inside Marble that I'm aware of and that are critical for the 
release have been fixed already. So I consider Marble ready for a KDE 4.0 
release.
Still I would have liked it if users actually would have been able to fully 
test the KDE version of Marble. Unless they will change the style themselves 
(which is pretty unlikely for most people) this will not happen.

2) Don't get me wrong: Oxygen must be the default style for KDE 4.0: It's what 
people expect to be included and shown off by default in KDE 4. For some 
people it will be the most significant difference compared to KDE 3 even.

Yes, this is just an example that concerns Marble. So I'm selfish in 
mentioning it.
However I'm pretty sure that there are other examples resulting from the other 
showstoppers that affect other software as well (like a PDF viewer that 
essentially doesn't have printing tested).

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