(sorry if you receive this mail twice, my subscription was not ok) Philip Webb wrote:
> 060404 Caleb Tennis wrote: >> historically we were much more bleeding edge with our stable KDE >> versions, but if you've spent any significant time playing with 3.5.0 or >> 3.5.1, you would agree that they are terribly less stable than 3.4.3. > > Not here ! I've used both (successively) every day > & can't recall a single crash or noteworthy (indeed any) problem. > It's true that I don't use Kmail & similar exchange-type apps > & some comments suggest that is where the bulk of instability lies. > > The fact that KDE itself is no longer accepting bugs for 3.4.3 > really does suggest there's something wrong with Gentoo's current > criteria. > As a user I have to add my opinion here. I have been using Gentoo for some years now and it was always fairly up to date. Currently KDE is really behind on the current situation upstream. And then I wonder why. What makes us think we can not trust the KDE devs? Does compiling KDE introduce so many bugs? I mean, let's be serious, all other distributions have a stable 3.5.x now. Don't they experience all those horrible bugs? Seriously, this is really becoming an issue. As I pointed out in a bug I filed for a stable KDE (for which I apologize, I should have looked here first), some people are leaving Gentoo because of this slow upgrade process. The classical answer from devs is "it's ready when it's ready". From a user point of view this is very, very vague. Please give users a more clear explanation, this creates great frustration when looking at other distributions. Because it's stable there. These are my 2 cents as a user. One that loves Gentoo. One that loves KDE. One that's frustrated by the current situation. I am a CS so I know how hard programming can be, don't get me wrong there. I do appreciate what you guys do. But I can't understand why you do it this way right now. Bart -- [email protected] mailing list
