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Re: faster release cycle
by Troy Unrau on Tuesday 05/Feb/2008, @12:19

One bugfix release per month isn't enough for you? Two major releases a year isn't enough either? There's just no pleasing you folks.

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Re: faster release cycle
by Anon on Tuesday 05/Feb/2008, @12:29

Heck, we had *daily* updates of almost all of KDE trunk/ on the run-up to 4.0!

http://etotheipiplusone.com/kde4daily/docs/kde4daily.html

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Re: faster release cycle
by Lee on Tuesday 05/Feb/2008, @15:29

You can have multiple updates per day (if you really want) using the build instructions and svn. It's not rocket science. Might as well, if you're asking for daily builds which would have no testing anyway.

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Re: faster release cycle
by Jeremy on Tuesday 05/Feb/2008, @14:43

I thought you guys had the perfect roadmap, shouldn't change it. If you want more, then pay the developers/donate or do it yourself.

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Re: faster release cycle
by Max on Tuesday 05/Feb/2008, @15:05

I love the roadmap as it is.

It's just sad that both distro's: Kubuntu, and openSUSE will miss the major KDE 4.X.Y versions. :(

Guess we'll have to wait for fall releases then. Hopefully they'll both have packages that will integrate the latest versions neatly.

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Re: faster release cycle
by Kevin Kofler on Tuesday 05/Feb/2008, @16:05

You're saying "both distros" (no apostrophe, it's a plural!) as if there were only 2...

Fedora 9 will ship with KDE 4.0.x (probably 4.0.3). It's quite likely 4.1 will be available in updates.

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Re: faster release cycle
by Sebastian on Wednesday 06/Feb/2008, @00:50

There is no problem with that. OpenSuse always provided new point-releases in their supplementary repository. I never experiencd any problems with those packages. Other main distros will do so as well. For the average user, it doesn't mind - enterprise customers will stick with 3.5 till 4.1.1 will be out and interested users will find the respective online mirrors.

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Re: faster release cycle
by whatever noticed on Wednesday 06/Feb/2008, @15:57

Yup, and opensuse comes with new updates every week, sometimes even several times a week.

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Re: faster release cycle
by winter on Wednesday 06/Feb/2008, @04:18

So what does this mean?
http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-4.0.1.php

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Re: faster release cycle
by jimB on Tuesday 05/Feb/2008, @14:56

Moreover, everybody has the option to build from source. The developers made all needed information available how to achieve this.

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Re: faster release cycle
by Chaoswind on Wednesday 06/Feb/2008, @01:49

As long as kde4 is such a mess, nothing is enough.

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Re: faster release cycle
by Sylvester on Friday 08/Feb/2008, @04:52

I prefer fewer releases and quicker a stable release. Releases require time that can be spent better by fixing some more bugs. It is a pity KDE 4.0 is not stable but releasing every week won't make KDE4 stable faster, so I really do not see the point in it...

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