On Sunday 25 January 2009 18:28:33 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > IMO Fedora made one mistake - a bad one, but only one. They did not > > shout loud enough that you should stick with F8 unless the Live CD > > convinced you that you could live with 4.0, new as it was. > > You're right there. But KDE upstream has to be blamed for the same thing, > they also didn't warn enough about 4.0. Still, we probably do have to take > some blame for not getting the word out widely enough. (People would > upgrade and only then come to us to complain and get told they should have > stayed with F8 until 4.1 for their usecase.) > > > I also believe that if Fedora had not done the 4.0 release there would > > not have been enough feedback to upstream to get things moving as fast as > > they have done. > > Indeed, a lot of the feedback upstream got in the 4.0 times was from Fedora > users. That said, some users also got 4.0 from other distros, e.g. the > Kubuntu Hardy KDE 4 Remix or OpenSUSE (though the Plasma they shipped > as "4.0" was really a mix of 4.0, 4.1 and custom hacks - we cherry-picked > some of their stuff, but they had more - their "4.1" Plasma is also a mix > of 4.1, 4.2 and custom hacks), or built it directly from SVN. > I got the impression that most other distros left people with a choice to stick with 3.5. Many chose to do that rather than live with the problems. That would naturally have an effect on the amount of feedback possible. 'Nuff said. What's done is done. Let's get back to the future :-) Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090125/39571d70/attachment.bin
