Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (37 mails)

[David Herman <mesamoo115@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 30 May 2008, Sven Burmeister wrote:
> Hello!
>
> There will be a kde3 bugs triage day. The question is whether
> bugs that cannot be confirmed for kde4 should be marked as
> wontfix or whether that would cause a feeling of "kde3 users are
> not important anymore".

Yes it would
> Since I can understand that maintainers want to focus on the new
> KDE, I would propose to mark all kde3 bugs as wontfix that
> - cannot be reproduced in kde4
> - do not have enough votes
> - take too much effort to fix.
>
> Too much effort to fix would be more than half an hour of work.
> Not enough votes may be <10.
>
> What do you think?

I disagree, kde4 as it stands is so completely diferent from kde3.5
(from a user perspective)  that I think it is premature to consider 
a bug in one irrelevant (won't fix) just because it cannot be 
reproduced in the other.

I wouldn't be surprised to see uptake for kde4 in a corporate or 
even personal setting take as long or longer than the transition 
from kde xp to vista. (not getting into specific reasons behind 
this lag.)

Word has it that 4.1 should be completely usable as a desktop but 
expectations often follow reality by a further distance than we 
would hope.

To promote an official position of cutting back support of kde 3.5
(by marking 3.5 only bugs "won't fix) at this time could even lead 
to a division in the community where it should not exist.

Yes it is a division of resources but the alternative could lead to 
a loss of userbase.
-- 
dh
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