Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Linonut on Sunday 15 July 2007 14:19 : \____
>
>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>>
>>> Smolt statistics, Fedora 8 Feature List
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | But about the positive stuff: of course for me most interesting is the
>>> | inclusion of KDE 4 packages. If it works out Fedora 8 might be the first,
>>> | larger distribution using KDE 4!
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
> http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/07/14/smolt-statistics-fedora-8-feature-list/
>>
>> Does anyone besides me not like the way KDE seems to churn?
>
> Yes, but I am not among those "anyone". To be brutally honest, their progress
> could be quicker. KDE 3 is getting quite old (in terms of age), just like XP
> which was released around KDE2's days.
>
> There was a time in Q3/4 od 2006 when KDE lost a bit of direction, but it's
> riding the wagon and running like a train right now.
>
Wonderful mix of metaphors :-)
Open-source used to be characterised by "release early & release often"
as a kind of internal mantra. This becomes problematic when you get
very large projects which are insufficiently modular for the release
cycles to be kept very short.
With projects the size of KDE, it's quite possible that it needs a full
re-write almost every release in order to maintain sufficient modularity
to enable individual components to follow a somewhat independent release
cycle, but that is a logical inconsistency :-)
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