On Tuesday 27 January 2009 20:05:16 Anne Wilson wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> > Date: 2009/1/27 > Subject: Re: what is stable? > To: KDE on Fedora discussion <fedora-kde at lists.fedoraproject.org> > > Eli Wapniarski wrote: > > If you mean that KDE 4.3 and KDE 4.4 final will not be stable > > I think what *I* can boil-down from this conversation is varying > degrees, definitions, interpretations of what it means to be: > * usable > * stable > * releasable > > I'd welcome a conversation to be able to be able to (as much as > possible) clearly define what we (fedora) consider these to be, so that > when any such future confusion arises, we can point to the bright neon > sign (wiki page?) outlining such. > Someone has to kick off :-) In my eyes, an application is stable if it doesn't crash or do other unexpected things. A distribution is stable if it has only packages that have been tried and tested over a very long period, which inevitably means that it will not have the latest and greatest, and intends making only the minimum of changes to stay secure. 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/20090128/88056609/attachment.bin
