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Re: Bits from the RM



On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:49:44PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote:
> What recent change in the KDE releasing schema let you think that they will
> manage to get a really stable x.y.0 release [*] when it seems like it took 4
> minor releases in the 3.1 branch ?
> 
> Naturally, no offense intended to the kde guys. Needing only 4 minor releases
> to stabilize such an amount of code is really great.
> 
> 
> Bye, Mt.
> 
> [*] ie, suitable for debian stable release, ie a version with which you
> could live for a year on your desktop, maybe dreaming of new features (we
> always want more), but not pesting against the bugs.
> I speak of course of the ideal debian stable release ;)

KDE usually releases new point releases about every two months until the
next major release happens. Then they only update for security related
bugs. It doesn't magically become stable after 4 releases.

Chris



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