Arun Khan wrote: > > Developers just writing the code and releasing it - for unstable/alpha/ > may be acceptable for alpha/beta but not in released versions.
Bugs are going to be carried over to released version unless many people test and report feedback. > > IMO, there was hype when KDE 4.0 was released - leading to expectations. > I personally bought into the hype End users falling for hype is indeed a issue. > A curious question - how come popular distros shipped KDE 4 in spite > of its condition ? What if people switch distros (as i did) because of > it ? Won't it hurt their popularity ? Maybe it will but all major distributions include it for various reasons. A important one is the "release early, release often" strategy that is critical for upstream projects reaching a maturity level. For Fedora, the reason is outlined in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/KDE4FAQ If you don't want the latest versions, sticking to a older (but maintained) release is a option. Rahul -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
