KDE 4 problems highlight shift from community users to consumers
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 91.60.190.47]
on July 17, 2008 08:33 AM
I think that the KDE Developer did it right.
It is a fact, that a community-project needs developers and testers in the first place. Normal Users are nice, but are not nearly so important then developers and testers. An other fact is, that many developers and testers don't touch beta software. Thanks to the publication of KDE4 instead of a KDE3.99_please_test_and_port_your_apps, many more testers and developers started to work on KDE4 and the development speed is increased by many times. You can be sure that a KDE in the shape of KDE4.1, would be more than a year away without the new developers and testers that the KDE4.0 release activated.
Yes, some users were alienated, but most user are only interested in getting there job done with a nice warm feeling and don't care about the past. With KDE4.3, most of the alienated Users will come back, because KDE4 will then give them a experience that they like and this is the important thing. But again... the state that they like, would be years away without the new developers and testers that the release of KDE4.0 activate.
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KDE 4 problems highlight shift from community users to consumers
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 91.60.190.47] on July 17, 2008 08:33 AMIt is a fact, that a community-project needs developers and testers in the first place. Normal Users are nice, but are not nearly so important then developers and testers. An other fact is, that many developers and testers don't touch beta software. Thanks to the publication of KDE4 instead of a KDE3.99_please_test_and_port_your_apps, many more testers and developers started to work on KDE4 and the development speed is increased by many times. You can be sure that a KDE in the shape of KDE4.1, would be more than a year away without the new developers and testers that the KDE4.0 release activated.
Yes, some users were alienated, but most user are only interested in getting there job done with a nice warm feeling and don't care about the past. With KDE4.3, most of the alienated Users will come back, because KDE4 will then give them a experience that they like and this is the important thing. But again... the state that they like, would be years away without the new developers and testers that the release of KDE4.0 activate.
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