On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 23:27 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Edmund Fitzgerald <edmund.fitzgerald75@gmail.com> wrote:
I once heard the remark that there are no good physics text books, because a good physics text book would be written for students, whereas actual physics text books are written to impress other physics professors.
And there is a lot of truth to this theory Mr Sunken Boat...
Suse Developers deal with the KDE folks daily and (probably) have some on staff. Now they are being pushed to go to these guys and tell them that KDE is not ready for prime time and the userbase is in revolt.
They naturally don't want to throw their colleges under the bus.
Telling a colleague that the product isn't up to what is desired isn't throwing them under the bus, it's being honest enough to deal with the reality of the situation.
So they march on assuming that the hardworking KDE guys will get this right before 11 goes out, rather than having to confront their friends with bad reports.
I hope that this is speculation on your part, and not the development process.
But we all know how unlikely it is that KDE will be ready as its still under intense development, and even if it was pronounced "Released" by the KDE crew it would still be untested. (After all those KDE guys are the ones that "Released" 4.0.4).
So there is this professional courtesy getting in the way of common sense, and text books are being written for the professors.
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