Possible 4.3.0 blocker in the Konsole KPart?

[Tom Albers]

Op Tuesday 04 August 2009 15:19 schreef u:
> On Tuesday 04 of August 2009 11:14:20 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 August 2009, John Tapsell wrote:
> > > We still get lots of flack for the complete mess we made of 4.0 etc.
> >
> > i won't even argue the basis of your statement, but i will say that
> > regardless of what anyone thinks about 4.0 it should not create subsequent
> > paralysis and start us down a path of second-guessing and changing from the
> > accepted release regimen.
> >
> > > A high visibility bug like this will cause us even more grief.
> >
> > it's not high visibility. it's one odd visual artifact in konsole kpart
> > usage when right clicking, and then only when you can see the top of the
> > scroll area. it's not great, but it's hardly high visibility or of the sort
> > that will "cause us even more grief".
> >
> > > A delay of a couple of days, on the other, people will understand.
> >
> > if we delayed for every bug of this magnitude, we'd never release
> [snip]
> 
> Indeed, but unfortunately it as well sheds some light on amount of bugs 
> actually introduced during development, and from downstream point of view it 
> makes all 4.x.0 releases to be treated like development releases.
> Partially it's because KDE developers seem to be overloaded with amount of 
> work - especially with multiple branches synchronization - which leads to 
> bugfixes sometimes not hitting latest 'soon-to-be-stable' branch (4.3 now) or 
> not hitting on time, as developers seem to be devoted to trunk (sometimes even 
> when 4.3 in this case is not released).
> It gives a little bit of feel of being half-baked, and really makes in 'distro 
> ready' with 3rd or 4th patch release, but I guess it's supposed to be like 
> this?
> Fortunately, every next minor release is in general less problematic than 
> previous one, so there is some quality-wise improvement.

Yes. This is exactly how KDE works. If you want stable you pick the last one from the previous serie. So use 4.2.4 if you want super stable. 4.3.0 will have rough edges and will improve every new minor version. 

This is nothing new btw, 3.5.0 was received as a lot worse than the 3.4.2(?) and by 3.5.6 it was the best release we ever did.

Just the way we work...

Toma
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KDE Developer