On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:49:44PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > What recent change in the KDE releasing schema let you think that they will > manage to get a really stable x.y.0 release [*] when it seems like it took 4 > minor releases in the 3.1 branch ? > > Naturally, no offense intended to the kde guys. Needing only 4 minor releases > to stabilize such an amount of code is really great. > > > Bye, Mt. > > [*] ie, suitable for debian stable release, ie a version with which you > could live for a year on your desktop, maybe dreaming of new features (we > always want more), but not pesting against the bugs. > I speak of course of the ideal debian stable release ;)
KDE usually releases new point releases about every two months until the next major release happens. Then they only update for security related bugs. It doesn't magically become stable after 4 releases. Chris