Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 29th Jul 2008 20:39 UTC, submitted by vege
Earlier this year, the KDE team released the highly-anticipated 4th major revision of the KDE desktop. Instead of bringing evolutionary changes, KDE 4.0 effectively delivered a complete rewrite of KDE, and as a consequence the first release of the KDE 4 branch lacked a lot of features of KDE 3.x, while also being quite unstable and rough. Many even complained the KDE team shouldn't have released KDE 4.0 as 4.0, but rather as a developer preview release or something similar. During this storm of criticism, the KDE team calmly pointed out that KDE 4.1 would fix many, many of the issues people had with KDE 4.0. Starting today, there's no more pointing towards KDE 4.1: KDE 4.1 has been released today.
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Member since:2006-03-05
Slight, I'd advice you to learn the difference between "development release" and "developers release". The first is a release of software that's under development -- which means that all releases are "development releases", the second is a release that brings something of special value to developers. In the case of KDE 4.0, the release brought a lot of value to developers of applications based on the KDE platform. You don't have to understand that: I don't expect that of you, you can just take my word for it. I am a developer of an application based on the KDE platform, and until the 4.0 release I had a hell of a time. Afterwards, it was relatively smooth sailing, as smooth as it comes when developing software.
RE[9]: Don't look back
by google_ninja on Thu 31st Jul 2008 16:56
in reply to "RE[8]: Don't look back"
Member since:2006-02-05
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2006-09-10
.0 releases may lack functionality, but they're usually meant to work.
Release early, release often *does not* mean tag a development release as a .0