kdepim4.5

[Eike Hein]

On 07/04/2010 06:53 AM, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> It is not unforseable that
> me you or someone else, on purpose or by accident or for whatever reason
> installs kdepim 4.5 on a production desktop.

kde-unstable is not for production desktops. If kde-unstable were to
cater to production desktops, it would not be able to fulfill the pur-
pose it currently serves, which is to test software that is expected
to be part of the next Fedora release.

Keeping the kdepim 4.5 beta out of kde-unstable would create a dange-
rous precedent for the future by hampering what kde-unstable has up
until now been used for, and thus limiting its usefulness for pre-
release testing, and thus limiting testing. Further it creates a
feedback loop: People would only even more get the impression that
kde-unstable is suitable for production desktops, which would put
the KDE SIG under even more pressure to keep it suitable for pro-
duction desktops. Thus making the problem even bigger.

This would have bad repercussions for Fedora KDE in at least two
ways: Less pre-release testing, and less pressure to do the work to
get stuff into the main tree because everyone is using kde-unstable
anyway.

I've seen that happen at other distros, were the KDE team or other
teams create personal repositories, and lose the discipline to do
proper release integration work. It's a downward spiral, let's not
let that happen.

Bottom line: Unstable means *unstable*.


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Best regards,
Eike Hein