On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 02:08:32PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 05:21:55PM -0400, Gianni Johansson wrote: > > > This is exactly what we have been doing for the last 15 days. > > Frozen means you don't change the code. The last change I saw was 3 hours > > ago. We have not been testing the same release image for 15 days. > > This attitute would even be conservative were we releasing 1.0, it is > completely rediculous for a piece of beta software, particularly while > we are currently recommending that people should be using 0.3 (which we > are implicitly doing until we release 0.5). I think we should delay. We need time to sort out the windoze installers, _and test them_. I have discovered some problems recently whose solutions will not be quite trivial, to do with long startup times. Oskar's patch for metadata may well be wrong too (the previous one was). We should release "when it's done". And we should not wait for the press. One week of code freeze and all substantial work on a separate branch or locally seems reasonable. > > > > > Hyping freenet is a bad idea. When it works well people with tell other > > > > people about it and the userbase will grow organically until journalists > > > > start to call you. > > If it works well you will have more press than you know what to do with. > > It does work well - right now. I have been personally testing it > heavily for the past few days, as have others. If people are concerned > that it won't be sufficiently tested, then they should be helping us > test it, not shouting "PR Whore" from the peanut gallery. > > > > We will, it will be part of the 0.5 release. > > We have been working on this for years. What is the motivation for rushing > > the release? Is the underlying problem that we are running out of money to > > pay mt? If so how much money do we have and how much do we need? > > No, the underlying problem is that our development release is much more > stable than our current stable release. If someone doesn't draw a line > in the sand, it will never be released. By saying it will be released > on Wednesday, it will focus people's efforts. > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] > Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/
-- Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet/Coldstore open source hacker. Employed full time by Freenet Project Inc. from 11/9/02 to 11/11/02. http://freenetproject.org/
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