KDE 4.0.0!

[Derek Broughton]

Richard A. Johnson wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Derek Broughton wrote:
> [...]
> | > KDE 4 was not the reason to drop LTS support for our 3.5.x branch,
> |
> | Of course it was.
> 
> You are kidding right? Do you follow development at all? Do you
> communicate on a daily basis with Canonical? I think the answer is
> obvious. The choice to drop LTS was made by Canonical, _NOT_ Kubuntu. Why?
> At the time, the KDE community didn't communicate their future with
> supporting KDE 3.5. It was because of this that Canonical, not any other
> community team, decided that making Kubuntu 8.04 an LTS release may not be
> plausible. I see a lot of people saying how hard could it be to maintain
> KDE 3.5 until 2011, it is hard, especially when your developer community
> is small, and really isn't funded.

So, you're saying that the KDE community is all committed to KDE 4, so
Canonical couldn't expect support for 3.5.

So, in fact, Canonical dropped LTS support because of KDE 4.  It's not that
difficult to understand.  So, no, I'm not kidding.
-- 
derek