Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Mar 4 16:49:46 UTC 2010


Juha Tuomala wrote:
> a) how users are supposed to consume those bugfix releases only,
>     when you push feature release in the middle of working week?

What bugfix releases would we be supposed to push? There are no further 
4.3.x releases.

> b) why those different releases exist in the first place, if there is no
>     intention to differentiate them?

Because they are needed due to KDE's own development method and schedule? 
That doesn't imply any assumption about what distros package.

And in fact I'd even argue KDE upstream expects users to be using 4.4.x now, 
not 4.3.x, or they'd continue supporting 4.3.x with bugfix releases.

> Speaking of distro decision, you mean that when FESCO decides this
> to stop, KDE SIG will stop it too. That's good.

If FESCo forces us to stop, what else could we do? We're part of Fedora and 
as such we do, and have to, follow Fedora policies. But I'm strongly opposed 
to such a distrowide policy.

        Kevin Kofler



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