GNOME updates vs. KDE updates

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

>
>So I really would like to know, how come Red Hat developers have time to
>ship a major update to KDE but not even maintenance releases for GNOME?
>  
>
Its quite amusing that we have another thread "Red Hat losing 
interesting in KDE?" running simultaneously to this one when in fact 
there is a KDE 3.5 release provides as an update.  So here is my take on 
it.

GNOME and KDE are not the same beasts to build. KDE is fairly self 
contained since they are provided as relatively large set of packages in 
core while GNOME has a number of small packages and major releases 
include additional dependencies which Fedora tends to avoid in a 
update.  Moreover KDE 3.5 was already build for the current developer 
tree which can be relatively easily rebuild for FC4 while doing a 
maintenance releases of GNOME is specific to FC4 and most of the 
development work is concentrated on getting a new test release of Fedora 
Core 5 out of the door before the holidays. It might as well as be the 
case that noone requested that and provided enough rationale for the 
developer to make a call and do the release or decide against it. If you 
want to do so, you can file a bug report against the "distribution" 
component in http://bugzilla.redhat.com for Fedora Core 4 or post to the 
fedora-devel list if it requires discussion.

regards
Rahul