KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software [LWN.net]

KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software

Posted Jan 28, 2009 21:58 UTC (Wed) by danielthaler (guest, #24764)
In reply to: KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software by NAR
Parent article: KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software

I'm quite happy to test software, if it has already been debugged to the point where it is somewhat usable. Testing before that point is the task of the developers who know their code.

I'm not interested in testing something like KDE 4.0, which I wasn't able to use sanely (I tried).

Another thing (which is mostly not a problem with KDE) is that I expect to receive feedback on bug reports if I make the effort to test some beta/rc. In other words I want to know that my putting up with verious annoying bugs isn't wasted effort.

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KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software

Posted Jan 29, 2009 8:45 UTC (Thu) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

I am happy to test software too, but not such big bits as KDE 4. If a given piece of software doesn't work for me, I am happy to try the next version, even if it is more bleeding edge. But I don't want to switch my entire system (which I mainly use for working) to bleeding edge. Gentoo is good in this respect - you can combine a mainly stable, but still pretty up-to-date system with one or two very fresh packages. Unfortunately I had a couple of other issues with it, so I switched to Ubuntu :) (Actually to Kubuntu until they switched to KDE 4, when I dropped the "K"...)