> The dilemma is that people seem to be voting with their feet as to which > version they think is more stable - just about all of the 0.3 freesites > have migrated to 0.4 - yet we are still getting thousands of downloads > of 0.3 daily... all of whom are likely to be rather disappointed.
> Thoughts anyone? Remove the 0.3 version from the web page without putting up 0.4 to replace it, and with only the note "temporarily taken down for development reasons" or something similarly ambiguous. Five minutes later, a thousand paranoid geeks all submit the "Freenet censored by MPAA!" story to Slashdot and any other weblog they can get their hands on. There follows a huge outburst of publicity about Freenet. Then, when 0.4 is ready, post it and watch the download counter burn. Make vague but defiant statements about deciding to post despite undefined pressure not to in order to generate extra interest. Actually, not a good idea; they'd probably just redistribute old versions of 0.3 over hundreds of mirrors for eternity. :) How about releasing a reasonably functional 0.4pre1 until those last few bits of stability get fixed? A slightly unstable 0.4pre1 is probably less disappointing than a stable but contentless 0.3. -- Bryan Derksen (bderksen at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca) http://www.ualberta.ca/~bderksen/ Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
