On 28.11.07 15:29:26, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > [CC:ing ev-marketing anyway.] > > On Wednesday 28 November 2007 15:08:50 Andreas Pakulat wrote: > > On 28.11.07 07:30:29, Rex Dieter wrote: > > > Andras Mantia wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Rex Dieter wrote: > > > >> If this is absolutely the last slip, sure. Otherwise, the release > > > >> party scheduled for January 17 will look pretty silly. > > > > > > > > But doing a release just for the shake of the release party is equally > > > > silly. :) > > > > > > So, do *you* want to be the one to tell the event organizers that all > > > their hard work and effort to pull the event together is now in > > > jeopardy? Not I. > > > > Huh? Why is their effort wasted if the release happens on Feb. 4th or > > some such? They can still pull off a release party. Its not like the > > party is going to be months before the release. > > > > IMHO its going to be much worse to do a release before the party, > > regardless of the state of KDE4. Reviews will rip KDE4 apart if the > > release is done that way and the released KDE 4.0.0 is not in a state > > thats worth a release. > > From a PR point of view, and for the sake of the release party, KDE is in a > state where we'd be able to present it at such an event.
I explicitly tried to not talk about the actual current state of KDE4, because I simply don't know. I'm not using KDE4 on a regular basis, so I can't comment on the state - except a few bugs I encountered. > I don't share your opinion on what's worse, party before release or party > after release. You really want to have the release out when you're showing it > to the public (which is what the event is all about, Industry, Press and > Community). Telling them that it's not released and thus still very much > vapourware would be "quite unfortunate" (read "sucks"). Hmm, indeed. I obviously didn't dive into the content of that party as it seems. I agree that having a release party that shows off the release to all the "3rd party people" without actual release might be a bit worse than having more problems in the release than we'd like to have. And btw, jduging from what I read on various sites (dot, planetkde, irc) I do think a 4.0 release in early january is realistic. Andreas -- You're currently going through a difficult transition period called "Life." _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team