On Wednesday 18 January 2012 09.05.32 Dario Freddi wrote: > > if you remember there are a lot of people using KDE that are not 'core' > > developers. Typically they are one-time developers, they are artists, > > they are translators etc []
> That said, I am in favor of moving to Qt 4.8 for a simple reason: I > believe both of you are right, but you are missing a point: the > occasional contributor is very likely to work in a branch. Dario, you seem to have skipped over my main argument. This is not *just* about code- contributors, although they make a very strong point too. Instaed think of the impact this has on all the groups I mentioned above. Artists trying to follow development. Translators trying to run stuff in order to figure out where a string comes from. Simple bugreporters that have little technical savy but can try out if a bug is still reproducable in 'master'. What some people here are arguing is that its Ok for a huge group of people that help KDE get better to have to wait for various months before they can compile KDE master again. And I want you to think about that long and hard because you may be underestimating the positive influence that group has on our community. Kind of a postscript I just wanted to reply on your argument for a branch. It doesn't in practice apply to the guys coming in with a simple bugfix. Their starting point will very likely be the current main branch. -- Thomas Zander
