On Tuesday 10 September 2013 20:07:06 David Edmundson wrote:
> > Isn't testing what a beta is for? I'd recommend to try to get as many
> > people as possible to test the beta with libkpeople, then based on the
> > feedback from the beta test we can decide whether to ship 0.7 with or
> > without it by default.
> 
> I can't backtrack after I've made a release even if it's only a public beta
> Packagers will hate me for giving them more work that we're not using
> and there will be a backlash from the people who had libkpeople and
> then had a feature taken away.

They could still compile with libkpeople, and distros could offer two versions, 
one with and one without, no? Would be yet more work though, of course.
But betas where you cannot try stuff out are not good betas if you ask me.
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