Delaying 4.0?

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Wed Nov 28 17:20:41 CET 2007


On Wednesday 28 November 2007, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Sebastian Kuegler wrote:
> > > Our current schedule says that we'll be tagging 4.0 coming week. I 
> > > propose shifting the release into January and instead doing -rc2 next.
> > > That gives us one more month for getting rid of the showstoppers that
> > > are still there, and also for polishing the user experience, artwork
> > > and translations.
> > >
> > > Maybe tagging on Friday, 4 January, releasing on Thursday, 11?
> >
> > If this is absolutely the last slip, sure.  Otherwise, the release party
> > scheduled for January 17 will look pretty silly.
>
> Well I always said it was silly to plan a release party in advance :-P

sort of like how silly it is to plan a development schedule in advance, 
because those don't really matter either and you can just throw them together 
in a moment's notice, too.

c'mon, let's try and be at least mildly supportive of the people who are 
working hard to treat communication and promotion with as much intent and 
passion as we treat our code.

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