On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:20:26PM +0100, David reid wrote: >... > > As Justin pointed out, the users seem to be just fine with it sitting in > > there. *TODAY*. So why would they suddenly be unhappy with it tomorrow? > > > > Release the damned thing as-is. > > > > 1.0.0 won't be perfect, but maybe 1.0.1 or 1.1.0 or 2.0.0 will be. As Jeff > > says, we'll never get there, and never find out at this rate. > > Well, let's have a look at what's been proposed and see what makes sense. > While I respect Justin's ideas of simply rolling, we have waited a LONG > time for a 1.0 release so why jump at this point? The point of the > timetable and it's 2 phases is to build in "thinking" time to try and get > as many of these issues aired and resolved prior to a 1.0 release.
Because it has been empirically proven that "wait for X" does not work. Without a change in point-of-view, we'll never get it released. Thus, the "just ship the frickin' thing" is a way to break out of the deadlock. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
