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

[John Blomfield]

I think the real issue is with the various Linux distributors that 
issued releases of their distributions based upon KDE 4.x without 
providing users with an alternative except to stick with an old release 
that may not be supported any more.  I have no problem with them 
releasing bleeding edge software as long as there is a supported 
alternative.  For example, Fedora replaced their solid stable F8, based 
upon KDE 3.5.10, with F9, F10 and now F11 all based on KDE4.x none or 
which are stable and the support for F8 is being withdrawn.  I believe 
Kubuntu and Mandriva are in a similar situation.  I don't see this as a 
KDE problem as such.

John



Steven Kurylo wrote:
>> 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.
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