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Following conventionsFollowing conventionsPosted Aug 20, 2012 22:56 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: Following conventions by nix Parent article: The GNOME project at 15 That was about all distros, since all of them included KDE 4.0 as stable. So distros did not pay enough attention, just saw the release, took the thing and packaged it. As is their job. Conclusions: do not rely on distros following development of your package; explain everything in detail in the release announcement. Do not use subtle cues; use standard version numbers where "4.0" means "stable version". Do not count on distro maintainers knowing your software intimately; go after them and explain any anomalies. They are providing your users a service packaging your software; do not expect them to also do your job for you, and above all: do not blame them for your failures to communicate. As an upstream developer I see these things clearly, but perhaps big packages are different.
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Following conventions Posted Aug 20, 2012 23:22 UTC (Mon) by sfeam (subscriber, #2841) [Link] That was about all distros, since all of them included KDE 4.0 as stableThis is a bit exaggerated. For instance Mandriva, which is/was primarily a KDE-based distro, carried KDE3 as the default configuration and offered KDE 4.0 only as an experimental option with suitable warnings in the 2008.1 installation instructions. They didn't switch to KDE4 as a default until the 2009.0 release containing KDE 4.1.1. Even then it came with warnings and an installation option to stick with KDE3 instead.
Following conventions Posted Aug 20, 2012 23:26 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] So not everyone, thanks. Just curious, what did OpenSuse do? They are the flagship KDE distro and sponsor KDE development. Did they ship 4.0 as stable, or did they wait until 4.1?
Following conventions Posted Aug 20, 2012 23:47 UTC (Mon) by sfeam (subscriber, #2841) [Link] I'm not a OpenSUSE user, but Wikipedia states that 11.0 and 11.1 shipped both KDE3 and KDE4. OpenSUSE 11.2 (late 2009) was the first to offer KDE4 only, and by that point it was KDE 4.2.something.
Following conventions Posted Aug 21, 2012 7:14 UTC (Tue) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]
Yeah... And that's also why KDE released two more 3.5 versions after 4.0 was released. Maybe it should have been more, and if distributions had asked for another 3.5 release, I'm fairly sure one more would have been released, since for some time bug fixes were going in.
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