Reverting kaddressbook back to previous version?

Matt McCutchen matt at mattmccutchen.net
Wed Apr 14 21:03:55 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 15:51 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Matt McCutchen wrote:
> > Please take the request seriously.  If Tuju is right that most users
> > would be better off with the older version, then that's what Fedora
> > should ship. 
> 
> I appreciate the comment, but that oversimplifies things quite a bit.  there 
> are a lot of other packages and issues and bugs involved here.  Reverting 
> even part or all as you suggest would have far bigger bad consequences than 
> helping fix the primary bug/app at issue here.
> 
> Fact is... qa'ing this, in updates-testing or kde-testing or whatever, and 
> finding the root cause(s), in part failed to catch this in time (prior to 
> push to stable updates).  The best (and honestly only) way forward is to 
> better document things (userbase.kde.org ftw!) and to continue working 
> toward the goal noble of making everything just work.

I'm not oversimplifying: by "most users would be better with the older
version", I meant to include such integration consequences.

I'll believe you that the answer is no.  You should have given this
answer to Tuju's original question rather than snippily dismissing it.

-- 
Matt



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