Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st Jan 2008 18:22 UTC
Ars reviews KDE 4.0.0: "KDE 4.0 was officially released last week after extensive development. The long-awaited 4.0 release ushers in a new era for the popular open-source desktop environment and adds many intriguing new features and technologies. Unfortunately, the release comes with almost as many new bugs as it does features, and there is much work to be done before it sparkles like the 3.5.x series." They were also at the KDE 4.0 release event.
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the definition of 'show stopper' is something that (hold your breath) stops the show. If alpha and beta testing reveal no more of these, then it is time for release.
How on earth did I twist the phrase 'release early release often' when we're discussing something that people are complaining about being released [i]early[/]??
I don't thing anyone is claiming the Cathedral and the Bazaar is any kind of bible, bit, you know, its about developing free software and kde is free software, so hey, not that far out of left field I'd have thought.
So, in summary, a free software project, in concert with the opinions expressed in a book about free software, released a piece of feature complete software, mainly so that application developers have an ABI stable base to develop against and people are complaining like the developers individually came round to their houses, formatted their systems and put a gun to their heads and made them install KDE4.0
As far as I'm aware, there is not a single distro with KDE4.0 as anything more than a preview package at present.
Programmers have a stable development environment to work against. Power users get to run the latest and greatest and start filling out bug reports, making suggestions and contributing however they feel. Distros get something that they can start packaging, port their unique apps to. Technically unsophisticated users don't even need to know it exists. And people with nothing better to do, who get something for nothing sit around and complain about other people's hard work on the internet. Which category do you fill?