From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 11:26:32 GMT
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 04:41, Jesper Skov wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 11:33, Andrzej Pruszynski wrote:
> > > We want to ship 1.0 soonish so we can start working on new features. 1.0
> > > will have plenty of known bugs, but hopefully it will have zero or very
> > > few crasher bugs.
> >
> > For me it is clear: new features = more bugs.
> > And never ending story with bugs as ms.
>
> Ah, but you miss part of the issue here: we work on AbiWord because it's
> fun. Fixing bugs forever is not fun. We want to add new features too. So
> we have to make a 1.0 at some time, with warts and all, so we can again
> start to "implement bugs".
>
> You probably want to read
> http://abisource.com/support/expectations.phtml if you haven't already.
What Jesper says is certainly right. But there's more to it than that.
What our users want is new features. The most voted-for bugs in
bugzilla are requests for new features. Those won't get implemented
before we release 1.0.
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