[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.3.95 tarballs?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 01/25/2010 05:32 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de>  wrote:
>> On 01/22/2010 10:12 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de>
>>>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>> KDE 4.3.95 has been put in the kde overlay three days ago.  However,
>>>> fetching still fails even after three days.
>>>>
>>>> Any place I can get the tarballs?  The manifests have checksums in them
>>>> for
>>>> all the tarballs, suggesting that they're available somewhere.
>>>
>>> I think 4.3.95 is KDE SC 4.4 RC2, so they probably hide them until the
>>> official announcement. At least that's how it has happened in the
>>> past. I think distro KDE maintainers have early access so they can
>>> have them ready instantly when the announcement is made.
>>>
>>> Last I saw, it should be released publically Friday (today) or
>>> Saturday depending on time zone.
>>
>> Well, according to upstream's schedule it should have been released 2 days
>> ago:
>>
>> http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.4_Release_Schedule#January_20th.2C_2010:_Release_KDE_SC_4.4_RC_2
>>
>> I'm asking because for two days emerge -u world doesn't really work because
>> of the failures in fetching.
>
> Today it is finally released. I don't know why it took so long. :)

It's a bit sad though that an open source project keeps secrets...  I 
found out that the tarballs were available for days now but only for 
maintainers of KDE packages of various distros.  For example Arch Linux 
had RC2 binaries available in its [kde-unstable] repo since Jan 21, but 
no one would give a link to the tarballs used to build the sources 
because they are "secret".

Am I the only one to find this frustrating (to say the least)?