Dear release team, I upgraded a few days ago from 4.6.5 to 4.8-RC1 and worked with it some time. As I'm a big KDE advocate, I'm currently having a deep feeling and fear that quality assurance is currently missing. Please do not take this as a rant but as a fear for releasing software which is not in a releasable quality state. I just used this "Release Candidate 1" for a few days in the usual way I used the software colledtion before for a lot of years (I mean: not doing weird things or testing extreme cases) but I since have only detected regressions (mainly in khtml)! and this is the reason I felt the urge to write to this mailing list, as I want to avoid that KDE in the current situation is released to the wild. I have the strong feeling that this would leave a very bad impression to a lot of users. (And I can not remember any RC version with that many regressions I found in just a few days)
For software in a "beta" stage this would be ok, but as I read that TODAY the software collection is going to be tagged as RC2, I strongly advice against naming it a release candidate! Please let the developers take some additional time to fix the most annoying regressions before releasing. Probably you could motivate the developers for a "bug fixing week" before the tagging or some other way of QA. I'm a professional software developer since > 20 years, and I would never release software in such a state. Again: this is no rant! I'm just looking for damage limitation as I love KDE and I'd like to be able to recommend KDE to other people as well. The details (regressions) I found in the last 3 days: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290375 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290373 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290371 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290331 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290324 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290278 (probably already fixed) https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290276 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290274 (very serious!) https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290273 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261325 (new problem added) -- Best regards/Schöne Grüße Martin A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q: Why is top posting bad? () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments Geschenkideen, Accessoires, Seifen, Kulinarisches: www.bibibest.at
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