Wouldn't everybody be happier if you gave them more time to think about things? We all want 0.5 to come out, but what is the hurry?
Right now, we could decide on a date. The date can be one or two weeks away, but it will be a fixed date. Everyone works towards that date, and there are no surprises. If the windows installer is not done by then, do not release it with 0.5, but at least that gives everyone some time to test the release candidate and work everything over. How about November 1. It's a Friday, so everyone can go out and have a bear after the release. I know it seems like a long time from now, but that will build up the suspense, right? (That's a joke) Whatever you decide, good luck with the 0.5. > -----Original Message----- > From: devl-admin at freenetproject.org [mailto:devl-admin at freenetproject.org] > On Behalf Of Ian Clarke > Sent: Saturday, 19 October, 2002 16:18 > To: devl at freenetproject.org > Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] 0.5 release - Wednesday > > > It is my understanding that the mozilla project does *exactly* what > > Oskar suggests (with the exception that their check-in freeze periods > > are a *month* now). > > So whenever a bug is discovered during that time, the clock is reset to > 1 month from that time? I doubt that very much. > > > You also mention in another post that the windows installer is > > largely irrelevent. While I am no fan of Windows and don't run it > > myself, that is a very foolish thought process. The installation > > process is a major part of any release. > > My point is that it isn't a blocker. > > > Talking to people that used to use Netscape, Netscape's premature > > release of 6.0 has done more damage then good. It doesn't take > > much for people to turn away from a product. Netscape learned > > their lesson (that they had forgotten). So should Freenet learn > > from other's mistakes ... we don't have to make them all ourselves. > > Firstly, Netscape 6.0 wasn't a beta, Freenet is. The last stable > release of Netscape actually worked, unlike Freenet 0.3. > > Explain why we should continue to recommend 0.3 as our stable release > when it doesn't even work any more, and current CVS is infinitely more > stable? > > Is that fair to our users? > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] > Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
