Re: On the Road to version 1.0 [release schedule]


Subject: Re: On the Road to version 1.0 [release schedule]
From: Rui Miguel Seabra (rms@multicert.com)
Date: Mon Dec 17 2001 - 15:57:07 CST


I decided to comment on the schedule separately. If I make no comment,
then it's because I agree/have nothing to add :)

On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 11:43, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Preliminary schedule:
> AbiWord 0.99.1 aka 1.0 Alpha 1: January 8, 2002. ~50% of 1.0 release
> critical bugs should be fixed by this date.
>
> Translation freeze (both strings and documentation): January 18. We will
> no longer accept new translations, documentation updates, or anything of
> the sort after this date. NO EXCEPTIONS.

I don't agree with this, specially because translations are usually not
directly related to coding problems (only tool bars now) and because
most translators don't do a line of code, so we're throwing efforts to
the waste basket in here.

> AbiWord 0.99.2 aka 1.0 Beta 1: January 19, 2002. ~66% of 1.0 release
> critical bugs should be fixed by this date.
>
> AbiWord 0.99.3 aka 1.0 Beta 2: January 23, 2002. ~75% of 1.0 release
> critical bugs should be fixed by this date.
>
> AbiWord 0.99.4 aka 1.0 Pre 1 : January 27, 2002. ~85% of 1.0 release
> critical bugs should be fixed by this date.
>
> AbiWord 1.0 final: January 31, 2002. Ideally, between 90% and 100% of
> 1.0 targetted bugs would be here. Ideally NO KNOWN CRASHERS

The above should be 0.99.5 for at least a couple of weeks.
Better to lay low for a while than to launch a 1.0 suddenly with the
risk of having 10%, which is still a lot, in the worst case.

Hugs, rms

-- 
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi
+ So let's do it...?




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