Re: Tagging Freeze in Effect

On Sunday 28 October 2007, Clarence Dang wrote:

compare this: 

> I've been silent about the quality of the current KDE4 for now

with:

> have to agree that kdelibs is not a candidate for releasing (hence,
> the name "RC") now and that the KDE4 betas have been alphas at best.

and begin to realize why we need to tag things with names like RC.

if it isn't painfully obvious by now, people remain silent and aren't 
sufficiently motivated to start the last push work until these things happen. 
interesting human behaviour, circumvented in many corporate envs by having 
managers with unquestioned rights push developers manually. in open source, a 
useful tool are hard deadlines, names for releases and pushing out tarballs 
that are a notch in time.

i'll bet that if we actually let things sit with an "alpha" tag that they'd 
never move beyond that.

so maybe we can stop bikeshedding about names and continue with the fixing. =)

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