On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 22:22, Max Paperno <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm so sick of "scheduled releases come hell or high water" in the > programming world (in general, not just Qt). The quality is (usually) > crap. Once upon a time this release quality was called > Alpha/Beta/Preview/NFP (not for production). Qt6 has literally been > called as being "primarily" for testing/feedback. That's a new major > release now? /further rant aborted
No worries, I for one understand the frustration. I should point out, though, that there are Seriously Bad Examples where programming projects that were expected one day to pay their bills were operating in a "we'll ship it when it's ready", which unfortunately meant that those projects never felt the need to stabilize anything in order to make things shippable. And "it's always ready to ship" is a laughable fairytale. Balancing that is non-trivial. Scheduled releases require rather little extra management, because everybody knows when the release preparation phases begin and what that means. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
