[Discuss] RC1 designations (was Re: KDE-4.3-RC1 released.)

[Steven Kurylo]

> Steven, your logic about people not testing due to a moniker is never an
> excuse.  If project statuses are advanced prematurely, then people will just
> get used to GA/stable meaning "full of bugs" and they won't test those
> either, but wait until several more minor versions come out afterwards to
> start.
>

You're assuming the developers have a choice to test it further,
keeping it at beta, and they'll eventually get to the RC state.

Do you know how many millions of combinations KDE and the kernel can
have?  While KDE didn't do 4.0 very well, I see it as a case of we've
tested it as much as we can and the only way we can progress is with
more people using it.  So we push it out knowing people may find more
bugs than we like, but there is nothing we can do.

Its an imperfect situation with no clean solution.