Subject: Re: Cool stuff & release plans
From: Patrick Lam (plam@plam.lcs.mit.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 20:22:25 CDT
Alan sent this to me and I thought that it was relevant, so as he
instructed, I forwarded it to the whole list.
Yes, he's right. It's really easy to lose a 'customer' (heh, heh. i'm
really the furthest thing from a marketroid most of the time. but
anyway) and never get him back.
We definitely want as many bugs reported as possible, especially with
testcases.
pat
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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 01:57:16 +0100 (IST)
From: Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Patrick Lam <plam@plam.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Cool stuff & release plans
>From my understanding of how versioning is supposed to go, version 1.0 is
exactly the same as version 0.9 + nothing but bugfixes
I know people who will NOT use software until it is at least > 1.0
once some one has tried Abiword and decided they dont like it, i think it
will be very hard to get them to try it again. On that basis i think
stabitlity and lack of bugs are more important than features for 1.0
Although finding bugs is what im best at :)
Its all good, once there is a Plan (and a timeframe).
(if you feel this is particulary relevant feel free to forward it to the
whole list)
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Patrick Lam wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> > agree. 1.0 by year's end would be a good timeframe, IMNSHO.
> If we release a 1.0 then we're saying that we have something that we think
> is useful and can do real things. It should also be reasonably free of
> bugs. I think that people do download a 1.0 release more than a 0.8
> release because there's some expectation that it's `finished' in some
> sense
1.0 should be as stable as it can be, rock solid if possible.
> Something that needs to be done at some point is a big bug-fixing
> spree; our bug count has recently tended to keep going up, not down.
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