On 07/04/2010 06:53 AM, Eli Wapniarski wrote: > It is not unforseable that > me you or someone else, on purpose or by accident or for whatever reason > installs kdepim 4.5 on a production desktop. kde-unstable is not for production desktops. If kde-unstable were to cater to production desktops, it would not be able to fulfill the pur- pose it currently serves, which is to test software that is expected to be part of the next Fedora release. Keeping the kdepim 4.5 beta out of kde-unstable would create a dange- rous precedent for the future by hampering what kde-unstable has up until now been used for, and thus limiting its usefulness for pre- release testing, and thus limiting testing. Further it creates a feedback loop: People would only even more get the impression that kde-unstable is suitable for production desktops, which would put the KDE SIG under even more pressure to keep it suitable for pro- duction desktops. Thus making the problem even bigger. This would have bad repercussions for Fedora KDE in at least two ways: Less pre-release testing, and less pressure to do the work to get stuff into the main tree because everyone is using kde-unstable anyway. I've seen that happen at other distros, were the KDE team or other teams create personal repositories, and lose the discipline to do proper release integration work. It's a downward spiral, let's not let that happen. Bottom line: Unstable means *unstable*. -- Best regards, Eike Hein
