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Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Mon Jul 16 21:41:34 UTC 2012


El Dilluns, 16 de juliol de 2012, a les 23:37:12, Michael Jansen va escriure:
> On Monday, July 16, 2012 10:42:11 PM Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El Dilluns, 16 de juliol de 2012, a les 22:37:24, Michael Jansen va
> 
> escriure:
> > > > > I do not like maskerading pre releases as stable version. Version
> > > > > numbers have a
> > > > > clear semantic meaning. And KDE currently breaks that.
> > > > 
> > > > We break what? Our numbers have a clear sematic meaning, i can look at
> > > > a
> > > > version number and tell you what it is. Agreed it's not trivial, but
> > > > saying
> > > > our numbers don't have a semantinc meaning is not true.
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > 
> > > >   Albert
> > > 
> > > Any version numbered minor.major.patch is a stable release. That's what
> > > we
> > > are breaking.
> > > 
> > > 4.5.70 is a stable release for anyone with experience in release
> > > numbers.
> > > Yes with the background of doing kde developing you know its not. But
> > > the
> > > convention says it is.
> > 
> > You mean like the gnome guys break it, and like the poppler guys break it,
> > and like the kernel guys used to do? and that's without lookinf for
> > examples.
> > 
> > Your convention is too narrow minded.
> 
> Ah. One of those.
> 
> So when you see garbage on the street you throw yours out through the window
> too? Because it is not wrong because others do it? If they stop you stop
> too?

silly comparison

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> For me change for the better start with stuff i can change. So fixing kde
> would be that first step.
> 
> Mike


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