On Thursday 22 November 2007 03:53:58 Rajko M. wrote: > The problem with alpha, beta naming is real. > People are afraid to install test versions.
You don't "fix" that by calling something "Release Candidate". In the case of 10.3, the Beta releases were imho usable. Most major problems were reported and fixed. Sadly some people started to test only when it was in "Release Candidate" state (note the difference to just calling it that) and expected new reports to get fixed when only blocker fixes were allowed. In the case of KDE 4.0, nobody tested/used it as daily desktop environment (in opposite to runing a single application) during the Beta releases. One observation was that people who participated in the KDE2 or KDE3 beta testing completely missed the KDE4 beta cycle (because it was as desktop environment unusable until recently). Why not just continue to have 2 or 3 months Betas? Bye, Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
