Just when I was starting to be OK with KDE 4...

[Art Alexion]

I was informed that the 8.04 KDE4 ppa was not going to be maintained much 
more.

I use kpf in kde3 to publish a status list of what I have in the pipeline at 
our office.  (I just keep the list in basket and export it to html 
periodically).

kpf is being replaced in kde4 by kepas.  If it works, kepas has all of the 
functionality of kpf and a lot more.  I have been testing kde4's progress 
with the hardy ppa, and it is much improved, even over the October release of 
Intrepid.

But I can't test kepas in 8.04.  Why, because the version in the ppa repo is 
incompatible with 4.1.2, and wants to downgrade kde to 4.0.5.  I filed a bug.

The response was "Confirmed", but the maintainer told me they were no longer 
going to maintain the ppa with updates, and I should switch to 8.10.

Now I have stopped complaining about the default being kde4 before it is 
ready, and I am just testing kde4 in hardy until it feels ready to upgrade.  
Now, not only is kubuntu 8.10 released with an immature kde, but I can no 
longer test the "beta" kde4 in 8.04.  

I simply don't know what's going on.  The devs seem to have thumbed their 
noses at regular users with their 8.10 decisions, and now they tell me I 
can't do what everyone defending the 8.10 decision tells me to do — stick 
with 8.04 and test until ready.  What a PR debacle for Open Source and Linux.
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