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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Let me sum up everything I've said in one sentence: if you have to tell *real users* "this isn't really the finished package," you shouldn't be tagging it as a general release.
That's all I'm saying, and I stand by it.
OK-- it boils down to 'good enough' vs 'as good as'. Since this is a KDE thread we'll use the Dolphin file manager. It didn't spring free form into existence. If the developer said, "I'm not releasing until it's as good as Konqueror." there would be no Dolphin. Back in the KDE 3 days it was released as a basic file manager- Some people saw it, liked it, helped out and gave feedback. Another release, same thing. And again. And again. Now it's in KDE 4.
If the developer waited until it was 'as good as' it would probably be bitrotting on a hard drive half ported to KDE 4. For active projects the benchmark HAS TO BE 'good enough'. Because 'good enough' is needed to get to the point of 'great'. That's the real value add of distro's stable release... Even if you disagree with their choices, they have the role of the arbiter on the meta level. On the project level 'good enough' is 'good enough'.
For example, you might be an informed choice about the risk vs reward of installing any given bleeding edge piece of software... But try doing that for every package on a Linux box. Say, "I Heart My $DISTRO". So if unsure, wait for your distro-- Otherwise a projects call on what's 'good enough'. And KDE 4.0.0 meets that bar, at least here.