Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

["Larry Stotler" <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Kevin Dupuy <kevin.dupuy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 08:07 -0400, Larry Stotler wrote:
> > If we are serious about removing 3.5.x, then we need to wait for 4.2.
> > Anything else is a bad idea and will come back to bite us badly.  Is
> > it really neccessary to push 11.1 out and then have 4.2 be released
> > not long after?  Delays are common in software, and no one will tink
> > any less if that happens, and most will be more appriciative if it
> > does.
>
> > From the openSUSE Factory mailinglist on March 7th, 2008:
> "KDE 4.1 will be released over one month after openSUSE 11.0
> So haven´t you thought yet to release it with KDE 4.1?It would be just
> one month later."
>
> The grass is always greener on the other side. Now folks are complaining
> that openSUSE won't delay for KDE 4.2. Actually, it's kinda funny to see
> this conversation occur over again.

I wasn't able to help out with 11.0 until late, so I missed that one.
However, in this case since it's a major part of the system, I still
think it would be better to wait.  Besides, what if the release date
gets pushed back anyway?  If it gets pushed back for any other reason,
then it would make sense to do 4.2/beta in parallel with 4.1 since the
team seems to back port a lot of stuff anyway.  I dunno, I'm not a
programmer, so I don't know how complex these issues are.  I'm just
the guy who is gonna be left behind if some people manage to get their
way and have 3.5.x dropped.  I don't think that is the attitude of the
devs because from what Michael said above, it seems that they are
willing to keep both systems for now and probably drop 3.5.x in 11.2.
We'll have to see I guess.
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