KDE alpha 1 packages for Fedora?

[jos poortvliet]

Op Thursday 03 May 2007, schreef Jesse Keating:
> On Thursday 03 May 2007 10:35:17 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > What really matters is how much testing that particular software got
> > externally and in a Fedora environment, upstream and developer
> > coordination etc. Sometimes alphas or betas or random cvs snapshots are
> > much more stable than the previously supposedly stable release and is
> > even recommended by upstream in some instances.
>
> Well, what really matters is what upstream is planning on doing with the
> codebase.  We ship "pre" releases of various types at various times, but
> always with a mind of what the upstream will do with them.  Most often we
> ship it only if it goes into a bugfix mode only, and the final release
> falls somewhere in line with our final freeze date.  We absolutely make
> sure that there aren't any feature enhancements planned for after our
> feature freeze.

It's of course not my call at all, but I can tell you the KDE release schedule 
is quite clear in terms of what is allowed - you can check techbase [1] and 
see that september 23, KDE will go in a total freeze (only bugfixes) until 
the final release on oktober 23th.

[1] http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.0_Release_Schedule

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Ik ben niet verantwoordelijk voor wijzigingen van de wereld, of het beeld wat 
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