On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Kevin Krammer <krammer@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Cause of this behaviour of distros, KDE gets less chance to get tested. The only solution is to elongate the release cycles, that way, each version of the DE gets tested slowly by every advanced users; so they face and report bugs before the very end user face them.
And look -- Xfce and cdrtools do that. And a no. of bugs and regressions have been ironed in the alpha release itself.
On Thursday, 2013-03-21, dE . wrote:Make sense, doesn't it?
> I'd the same issue with Debian testing; also distros wont upgrade to the
> latest 'stable' KDE; they usually wait for the last bug fix release, or
The x.y.0 version is always the start of a stabilization cycle, just like for
the distributions themselves.
It is like a slider from newest to stablest, depending on ones needs one needs
to chose the right point in time.
E.g. on my Kubuntu workstation I upgrade a couple of days before a new release
comes up, thus getting the most stable version availale.
On my Debian laptop I run Debian/Unstable, so I can't do that on distribution
versions, but I can still wait for certain projects x.y.1 or x.y.2 before
upgrading the respective packages.
Servers with Debian/Stable are also not upgraded on release, admins test on
separate machines until a minor release appears which meets their criteria.
As far as I know that is even true for admins of Windows servers, i.e. they
always wait for at least the first service pack before they consider
deployment.
I guess one could say that there are two cascades cycles:
- development cycle: x.y -> x.y+1 -> ...
- refinement/deployment cycle: x.y.z -> x.y.z+1
The development cycle goes from basic features to advanced features, the
deployment cycle from unstable to stable.
Or like a matrix with basic/unstable in one corner, advanced/unstable in one
direction, basic/stable in the other and advanced/stable in the opposite
corner.
Obviously both dimensions expanding over time :)
Cheers,
Kevin
Cause of this behaviour of distros, KDE gets less chance to get tested. The only solution is to elongate the release cycles, that way, each version of the DE gets tested slowly by every advanced users; so they face and report bugs before the very end user face them.
And look -- Xfce and cdrtools do that. And a no. of bugs and regressions have been ironed in the alpha release itself.
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