Re: Upcoming releases


Subject: Re: Upcoming releases
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 14:56:58 CST


On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 12:33:24PM -0800, WJCarpenter wrote:
> dom> What I'd like to do is release a CVS snapshot of AbiWord in about
> dom> 2 days. Call it a 0.9.0 pre-release if you will. There's no need
> dom> to build any binaries, but if you'd like to, please do. I'll be
>
> To prevent a stock market panic, perhaps we could call this a 0.8.0
> pre-release? For anyone who has been following along, calling it a
> 0.9.0 pre-release leads to the logical conclusion that 0.9.x "real
> release" is just around the corner, and 1.0 is just around another
> corner.
>
> Maybe you meant those timeframes to be implied, but my guess is that
> there is a lot of elapsed time yet to come before 1.0, and all we'd be
> doing is inspiring "well, where is it?" queries.

Well, we are planning to release 0.9.0 in the near future. So I don't
think it will get people's hopes up too irrationally.
           
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