kde4 status?

[Gilboa Davara]

On 8/23/07, Yaakov Nemoy <loupgaroublond at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 8/20/07, Adam Tkac <atkac at redhat.com> wrote:
> > I think it would be better switch to KDE4 as soon as it possible (right
> > now) and don't try maintain KDE3 and KDE4 simulateously. Of course, it
> > will cause unstability, KDE team will be under heavy load, conservative
> > people could get heart attack etc. But I think new Fedora is more about
> > new features than about stability. Also if we switch to KDE4 now we
> > should discover more bugs and make upcomming KDE more stable. Bug-free
> > work is enemy of good work in our business :)
>
> I guess the good work of your business is your enemy then.  Alot of
> people shy away from Fedora because of the instability. Without
> dragging a certain brown-coloured distro into this argument, there are
> people that choose !Fedora because it's always a) unstable, b) a
> testing grounds for Red Hat, c) too experimental for it's own good.

So?
Fedora -is- bleeding edge.
At least in my case, when I require a stable disto, I either use RHEL
or CentOS... not Fedora.

IMHO Fedora [1] isn't looking to be number one. It -is- looking to
showcase the best and latest of the OSS world.

>
> Even if these aren't true, that's how people see Fedora, and the last
> thing we really need to do is prove them correct.

I'm not sure that they are wrong.
While I think that that KDE4 should not be pushed into rawhide before
all the building blocks are bolted in (Read: Plasma... Not sure about
Phonon) - I do not agree that Fedora should forsake its designated
goal in the name of stability and market share.

- Gilboa

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