Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (80 mails)

[Martin Schlander <suse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Den Saturday 26 January 2008 13:47:51 skrev Thierry de Coulon:
> I think it's a bad idea to name .0 a beta version (and even beta is still
> too much). 

You're too late for this discussion. The decision to release 4.0 in a 
questionable state has been discussed endlessly for the last few months on 
blogs, podcasts, irc.. whatever. I don't understand how you can have missed 
it, if you're the least bit interested in KDE. Now that it's released it's 
too late to do anything about it, and noone wants to discuss this topic 
anymore, it's time to look ahead.

Also you should realize that most of the behind the scenes stuff is of release 
quality, so are many of the apps. What's alpha/beta quality is mostly just 
plasma (the desktop shell) and some apps.

Besides it's not crucial what KDE releases per se, since >95% of users get 
their KDE from distributors who probably have the knowledge to decide which 
versions are ready for their users.

Everybody who's not living under a rock, should be well aware that 4.0 is only 
of tech preview quality. Who cares about the numbers. 4.1 (scheduled for 
July) is  expected to be the "feature complete" release usable by Aunt Tillie 
and Joe Sixpack.

Secondly, when to release 4.0 is not decided by the openSUSE KDE-team, your 
gripe is with the KDE release team upstream - there might be some duplicate 
people, but this is still not the place to debate it.
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