From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FcImn-00014F-VU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 May 2006 09:09:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4697cW6017821; Sat, 6 May 2006 09:07:38 GMT Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.230]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k46938VV017838 for ; Sat, 6 May 2006 09:03:08 GMT Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i13so752924wra for ; Sat, 06 May 2006 02:03:08 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=sJ48ulQhS3iusQPWQwGv1FppIntXUn7Hv/aKPxf2RyEmz4r2y5vmrJgofMOYJk5ZzO21VNXj2wfgKCiXWSKF6F6sO53TrkDhQW4uXu2/SHVqaiUP3JrhPaOKtP4dtYLpYqZpbtfvYpTVMGGKYucETyyOxK9mxOEG8GM7oQkkIYs= Received: by 10.54.116.17 with SMTP id o17mr106158wrc; Sat, 06 May 2006 02:03:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.66.10 with HTTP; Sat, 6 May 2006 02:03:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7573e9640605060203y72ded2caq5d87a02741fb64d6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 02:03:07 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable? In-Reply-To: <20060505071417.GA6335@sympatico.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline References: <200604040114.01418@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <623652d50604040212r6f543d37pedb645e979456755@mail.gmail.com> <63052.69.136.169.173.1144147119.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> <20060404121850.GD6101@sympatico.ca> <1146745131.12321.21.camel@vertigo.twi-31o2.org> <20060505071417.GA6335@sympatico.ca> X-Google-Sender-Auth: d165c08bd7e0a951 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k46938VV017838 X-Archives-Salt: 6cdd1009-f96b-4b45-8ece-f9ba032eeaec X-Archives-Hash: 43b6381aeb073cb96df936900c17e9b4 On 5/5/06, Philip Webb wrote: > 060504 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > If we followed others blindly, as so many users suggest, > > then we would have stabilized KDE 3.5 ages ago, > > and every single one of you KDE users would be complaining > > about how our QA sucks because KDE doesn't compile > > or breaks badly in so many places. > > This is rubbish: I'm now using 3.5.2 & have had no problems whatsoever; > nor did I have problems earlier with 3.5.0 & 3.5.1 . Not rubbish. I had problems. So did many others. Fortunately mine were of the "just annoying" variety, not of the "crap, did I make a backup last night?" kind. If you don't believe me, take a walk through bugs.kde.org. The Gentoo devs have done the right thing by holding back on stabilizing KDE. -Richard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list