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Re: Thx Danny - KOffice?
by T. J. Brumfield on Monday 17/Mar/2008, @18:50

I don't mean to sound like a dissenter, but without good ODF support and without a word processor, do you really have a KOffice release?

KDE 4 ended up bumping back a few months, and then people were still insisting perhaps it was released a little early. An incomplete release will only feed the trolls and incite negativity. A late release will provoke less of that.

In the end, most users aren't going to use it until it is usable, regardless of what you call the release. Until you have solid ODF support and KWord, does it matter if that working release is called 2.0 or 2.1?

My suggestion (for what little it is worth) is to release more alpha/beta builds until you can release properly.

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Re: Thx Danny - KOffice?
by jospoortvliet on Wednesday 19/Mar/2008, @11:22

There are reasons to do a release. And those are rather similar to the ones we had for releasing KDE 4.0 in januari. For one, some apps ARE kind'a ready, and not releasing them hurts them (they get less feedback, new developers and it's not motivating to have no release for a long time). Besides, if for example KPresenter is good and solid, I would love a release so I can get rid of the OO presentation app ;-)
Same goes for eg Kexi etc.

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