On Wednesday 30 April 2014 21:56:12 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:35:54 Àlex Fiestas wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 April 2014 19:23:07 Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > For non-rolling distros, at some point you have to stop and release. A > > > mix > > > of new features and bug fixes aren't going to be allowed in. > > > > > > We (Kubuntu) have been delivering KDE SC point releases as post-release > > > updates to our users for most (maybe all) KDE4 releases. That's over > > > with > > > KF5. > > > > > > We'll, I guess, have to settle for cherry picking fixes and doing our > > > best. > > > > You might not know this but most developers don't do proper testing in the > > stable branches because the cost of having master and stable environments > > and doing testing in both branches for each fix is too much, we simply > > don't have the manpower for that. > > > > History has shown this maaaany times, we have done point releases that > > were > > horrible quality-wise because nobody was testing them. The stable branches > > have virtually no users. > > maybe not among developers... > But all normal users who just install KDE from some distro are users of the > stable branches.
I think Alex meant something different: the branch does not have any testers before it's rolled to the users. Which means that regressions are not caught before they hit the users. Cheers Martin
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