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When ‘Release Early, Release Often’ Is a Problem

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FOSS Force; By Christine Hall 		Mail this story
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Sometimes it’s time to just coast for a while. Otherwise a project runs the risk of introducing unnecessary bloat or fixing what isn’t broken, thereby causing unnecessary problems for users — as has happened with GNOME, and before that (and to a lesser degree), KDE.

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seatex ·
Great article! A must read for all GNOME and KDE developers.

Sometimes there's a fine line in desktop UIs, between clean-and-simple and under-featured. However, bad interface design changes that make work flow less efficient (or software less stable) for users is far less forgiveable.

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