Søndag den 29. januar 2012 11:23:46 Mathias Homann skrev:
the "man in the street" operates like this:
- finds a problem with something in his current KD 4.7.x - googles for solution - finds "solved in KDE 4.8" - reads "KDE 4.8 released" on osnews or heise - WANTS kde 4.8
and you're telling that "man in the street" to wait for the next suse release, which might just as well have KDE 4.9.0 instead, if the timing is just right?
openSUSE has hundreds of thousands of users. KDF+KR4x has maybe 20-30K users - and those are not "the man on the street". And the minority which does operate in the way you describe, just get new problems which are (at least) equally troublesome as the minor annoyance they tried to fix in the first place (see most of the traffic on this list or on IRC if you don't believe me). So there's no point in encouraging more people to do unsupported upgrades which will usually cause a lot more trouble than they solve because of upstream regressions, packaging bugs or user error with upgrading or repo setup. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org