[Klug-general] software releases [was: Re: Gnome3]

[George Prowse]

On 10/04/2011 16:09, James Morris wrote:
> On 10 April 2011 15:49, George Prowse<george.prowse at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> By a full release it should be mature, otherwise you are releasing poorly
>> tested software. Take KDE4 for example, that was barely useable until 4.4,
>> KDE owe me about 2 weeks in compile times using that rubbish :(
>
> Define mature. Define poorly tested. Is 'release early, release often'
> out of date now? Are you talking about desktop environments or any
> type of software? Are you talking about software developed by
> individual coders working voluntarily, teams of volunteer coders,
> teams of paid professionals, etc?

Well mature/immature usually refers to featureset but i'll use it here 
as I can't think of a suitable adjective.

Any software is immature if it not ready for large scale deployment, 
i.e. "full of bugs". If it has not been tested thoroughly enough or gone 
through the correct release cycle for its use then it should only be 
release as an alpha, beta or RC.