Comment # 10 on bug 996834 from Wolfgang Bauer

(In reply to Donald Curtis from comment #9)
> With reference to a comment made by Richard Harris at osc16: yes, Leap 42.1
> was, sadly, initially a KDE disaster.
> 

I don't know Richard Harris, not what comment he made at osc16.

What was this about?
The applications?
Or rather the desktop?

In any case, I wouldn't call it a disaster really.
But that's rather irrelevant here now anyway.

> So, what can testers do to help avoid the same situation with Leap 42.2?
> 
> From where I'm sitting: Test, Test, Test . . . -- and preferably with the
> Beta releases . . .
> 
> If the delivery schedule of the KDE components is not early enough for Beta
> testing to find the things which will annoy the user community then, there
> is a danger that, the Leap 42.2 release will not be well received.

The 16.08.0 packages are in Tumbleweed since yesterday, and they are available
in KDE:Applications for over a week (also for 42.2).
You can use the latter (do a full switch) if you want to test them in 42.2.

Submitting the nearly 200 16.04.x packages to 42.2 and getting bug reports
about them from 42.2 testers doesn't make much sense either, considering that
they are not what we will ship in 42.2, and they were in Tumbleweed anyway.

> The worst thing that can happen is, that the Kontact user community will
> remain with the KDE4 Plasma version (despite the occasional segment faults
> when the mail archive runs).

KDEPIM4 is not/will not be included in 42.2.

42.1 did ship with KDEPIM4, so if this is your main concern I even more don't
understand your comments about 42.1 having been a disaster at all.