On Tuesday 27 January 2009 20:05:16 Anne Wilson wrote:
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From: Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)math.unl.edu>
Date: 2009/1/27
Subject: Re: what is stable?
To: KDE on Fedora discussion <fedora-kde(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> If you mean that KDE 4.3 and KDE 4.4 final will not be stable
I think what *I* can boil-down from this conversation is varying
degrees, definitions, interpretations of what it means to be:
* usable
* stable
* releasable
I'd welcome a conversation to be able to be able to (as much as
possible) clearly define what we (fedora) consider these to be, so that
when any such future confusion arises, we can point to the bright neon
sign (wiki page?) outlining such.
Someone has to kick off :-)
In my eyes, an application is stable if it doesn't crash or do other
unexpected things.
A distribution is stable if it has only packages that have been tried and
tested over a very long period, which inevitably means that it will not have
the latest and greatest, and intends making only the minimum of changes to
stay secure.
Anne