RFC: kde stability proposal (redux)

[Eli Wapniarski]

For the most part, I don't think the proposal will make much of a difference. 
The problem lies mostly with development practices over at KDE and not 
necessarily with the KDE packaging team at Fedora.

What really needs to happen, in my humble opinion, is that the packaging team 
needs to get together with the packaging team from the other distros and 
simply refuse to even consider package for testing until the current array of 
application bugs get fixed and that the QA upstream improves. There is no good 
reason why packaging teams need to take the flack for bad code.

While getting the eye candy to work is a nice added bonus, if we can't work 
with applications like Konqueror or the required Akonadi and are forced to 
(even on a temporary bases) too use non KDE apps then whats the point of KDE. 
Please do not misunderstand this as a call to dump, on the contrary, that most 
of the stuff in KDE works and that many of the added features make a big 
difference to the usability of KDE and indicates a great deal of skill and 
quality of code is amazing and worthy of respect and accolades. However, when 
something breaks, it really is very noticable. Its important for the 
developers to realize that people are relying on KDE and KDE apps to get 
things dones for work and pleasure otherwise. Otherwise the User will simply 
use something else.

Eli

On Monday 08 March 2010 16:26:30 Rex Dieter wrote:
> One more call for discussion around another proposal that came out of
> FUDCon Toronto.  Short version of this is that we'd consider slowing down
> updates a step, esp for the second half of a fedora release's lifetime,
> and to limit kde 4.x-type upgrades to at most 1 per release.
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Stability_Proposal
> 
> 
> Whatever we decide, increasing our transparency by documenting our update
> practices will hopefully help shape everyone''s plans and expectations.  As
> it is, seems these vary wildly.
> 
> -- Rex
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