Why does KDE think its fine to ship bugs and how can I stop using the latest release ?

[Markus Slopianka]

Am Dienstag 08 Februar 2011, 17:47:22 schrieb Linuxguy123:
> The first
> releases should not have shipped to the public.

KDE does not release software to users. Distributors do that.
KDE chose its development cycle actually very carefully. 
Of the five major distributions, three (Fedora, Mandriva, and (K)Ubuntu) are released 
every spring and autumn. For that reason KDE chose to release the SC in winter and summer, 
so that all three of them (+their derivatives) can ship a bugfixed SC release.

The fourth major distribution, Debian, has a stabilization cycle of 6 or so months, so 
they ship the latest bugfix SC release anyway.
When the 6 months release cycle was adopted by KDE, openSUSE did not have a fixed release 
cycle, so it was assumed that they'll pick up a bugfixed release anyway (now they have an 
8 months cycle but AFAIK their feature freeze is laid out in a way that they'll won't ship 
a SC 4.y.0 release anyway and instead choose the 4.x.5 release that came before 4.y.0…)

Markus