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maintenance release? sureee
by Steve Warsnap on Wednesday 02/Aug/2006, @22:43

funny how they call this a 'Maintenance Release' and still include so many new features. I thought the whole idea of a Maintenance Release was bug and security fixes.

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Re: maintenance release? sureee
by Carsten Niehaus on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @01:01

It fixes well over 100 bugs (the changelog lists about 160 bugfixes). The new features are

a) well tested in 3.5.x
b) very small
c) in trunk (the is what will become KDE4)
d) reviewed in public before being added ('backported') to KDE 3.5.4

These four conditions make these features safe.

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Re: maintenance release? sureee
by shev on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @04:24

Well you are trolling. Its a maintenance release, or can you tell me a list of new super shiny features?

Ok now to something more interesting than stupid troll-posts.

I am using the smaller WMs, still fluxbox is my favourite.
I need all the speed i can get :-)

That being said, I prefer KDE over Gnome for 2 reasons:

- KDE is easier to handle than Gnome (that starts with compiling, and
goes over to do certain tasks. Gnome seems CONFUSED to me about
how it handles things)
- Dcop and scripting support is much better in KDE than in Gnome.

The 2. reason is my main reason why I use KDE. I love scripting.
I dont want to miss that feature.

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Re: maintenance release? sureee
by Louis on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @10:07

At least he was on topic. You're not; you're just being a dick.

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Re: maintenance release? sureee
by tfry on Thursday 03/Aug/2006, @13:16

IIRC the rules for feature inclusion were slightly relaxed for this release. Due to the long time before 4.0.0 comes out, some features, which a) seemed very useful to have soon, and b) did not seem too "dangerous" to add, were allowed.

So actually it's not a pure Maintenance Release, but given the fixes-to-features-ratio it's still quite reasonable to use that term.

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