Re: [kde-linux] KDE 3 Beta

On Wednesday 31 October 2007 13:32:49 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
david wrote:
James Richard Tyrer wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 28 Oct 2007, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
Perhaps you miss my point, or perhaps I wasn't clear. I have no
objection to any of the development work that is being done and I do
not want any of it changed. What I do think is that somehow we need
to also release a more stable product that is of commercial production
quality. There are companies and governments which rely on our DeskTop
and we need to provide them with a high quality product. I see a
simple way to do this: the stable release should not have new stuff
added to it until the new stuff meets quality standards. Our current
development methodology makes this impossible.

The truth is that there are two very different camps. One camp wants
the latest and greatest. The other camp wants stability at any price.
That camp uses Enterprise releases.

I am in basic agreement with that idea. That is why I propose two
releases stable and unstable.

The "other camp" is in a different situation than Joe Ordinary User. If
Joe's system won't come up after an update - oh, well. But if you are IT
director keeping vital corporate databases alive on a server - you can't
afford to have that server crash because of some error in an update.

But, anyway, I thought that's why there were branches of Linux such as
Stable and Testing/Unstable?

Yes but ... (tm).

Yes, that is the way that Kernel development works, but it is not the
way that KDE development works.

KDE does not supply such a stable KDE branch. So, are we leaving it up
to others to fix the bugs? Is this occurring -- I doubt it.

The developers work hard, but they could always do with extra hands. Are you
volunteering?

Anne
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