Konqueror questions.

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Tue Sep 25 18:56:37 CEST 2007


A Dimarts 25 Setembre 2007, Aaron J. Seigo va escriure:
> On Tuesday 25 September 2007, Allen Winter wrote:
> > On Tuesday 25 September 2007 11:28:06 am Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 25 September 2007, Tom Albers wrote:
> > > > At Tuesday 25 September 2007 15:17, you wrote:
> > >
> > > marking things all over the place as "showstoppers" may seem
> > > responsible from a release perspective,
> >
> > we are the "release team" after all.
> > so it seems reasonable to look at things from a "release perspective".
>
> indeed; however, it is not the only perspective and i'm trying to help
> provide some other perspectives as well. combined, we may make better
> decisions.

Just my perspective too.

I'd vote for having kate and kmail in. They don't seem to be in too bad shape 
they can't be fixed to somewhat behave in 2 months.

Albert

>
> > > but .. yeah. kmail and kate as "showstoppers", given
> > > the purpose and scope of 4.0 as a release along with our goals (e.g.
> > > releasing in a reasonable time frame versus allowing ourselves to
> > > endlessly delay things), seem a bit odd to me.
> >
> > You also need to balance having a release that is somewhat useful
> > to somebody.  If all we want is a pretty desktop without any useful
> > apps then we have the KDE Development Platform out by 30Oct
> > and we are done.
>
> are you seriously suggesting that KDE without kmail and kate constitutes a
> desktop "without any useful apps"? there's a balance point somewhere in
> here. and as i said in my first email, i thought we'd already achieved
> consensus that said "running kde3 kdepim apps is fine for 4.0, with the
> goal of having kde4 pim apps ready for prime time in 4.1"? so i'm seeing a
> slippage here in our consensus that seems to be endangering our ability to
> release in a suitable time frame.z
>
> (though i was just using kate this morning to see how good it is and it
> seems to not be seriously broken atm? =)
>
> p.s. i'm on this mailing list, no need to cc me =)




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