From: Andrzej Pruszynski (abi@rth.coi.waw.pl)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 12:09:33 GMT
On Wed 13. March 2002 12:26, sam th wrote:
> 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.
I am not involved in source code and don't know, but estimate a risk.
Sometimes new features build on unstable fundaments directs to a global
crush. I am deeply with you. So, please take sharing my thoughts as my
support, not against you.
In every day life I love to find and kill my own "bugs" - not only for fun.
Andrzej Pruszynski
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