Subject: thinking about feature freezes (was Re: The 1.0 Jobs List ( :-) )
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2000 - 11:59:21 CDT
At 08:54 AM 6/16/00 -0400, Thomas Fletcher wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>> I kind of thought than when 0.90 is released we would all go on a bug
>> squashing frenzy :-)
>
>I must say that coming from an OS vendor this model suits me very much.
>I would consider all of these beta/pre 1.0 releases as internal releases.
>Once you hit the stage where you are looking at making a final release,
>you should go through a feature freeze and do nothing but use the
>product and fix the problems that you find with it (granted this may
>involve some heavy changes ... but NO MORE FEATURES!). Any one from
>AbiSource want to comment on this train of thought?
I personally like this. Very much.
Over time, we've been piling up a bunch of features at varying levels of
completeness. While it's tempting for us each to sneak in our favorite
features under the 0.9.0 wire, please try to resist the temptation. With a
few critical exceptions, I'd *strongly* encourage folks to spend their time
focusing on polishing what we've already got.
(Kudos to the folks who've already switched into that mode.)
Ask yourself whether you're willing and able to do a very very very thorough
job of implementing new features. If not, it's rapidly getting to the point
where we're *much* better off getting the existing feature set Just Working
flawlessly.
After all, we want to save some exciting things for 1.2 and 2.0, right?
Paul
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