I hate to say it, but I believe one weeks notice is more fair. however alpha
does not mean completed. Alpha means this shit needs heavy testing! there's
still alphas, betas, rc's and then a final release to test and fix things.
it just means no NEW features.

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:14 PM, <vto...@univ-evry.fr> wrote:

> Quoting "Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)" <ras...@rasterman.com>:
>
> > On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:33:35 +0200 (CEST) Vincent Torri <
> vto...@univ-evry.fr>
> > said:
> >
> >> > thought we were about there. i asked - you did not disagree or provide
> any
> >> > information. what do you expect me to do? i did the right thing. i
> asked.
> >> > you replied. you gave no list of things you are working on that need
> to be
> >> > done by 1.0.0 alpha
> >>
> >> You're always right, of course... I'm fed up, do what you want, as
> always.
> >
> > well if this is how you see it - then not much i can do. there is
> > nothing i can
> > do in such a situation. you will be upset no matter what is done unless
> you
> > yourself determine everything, because you didn't share your objectives
> with
> > everyone else.
> >
> > you're one of the few people who are actually reliable and
> > trustworthy. if you
> > don't say you have something to do, i believe it. i'm not doing what
> > i want to
> > do just because thats how i want it. i engaged the developers - both on
> email
> > and irc - our primary communication mechanisms - you included. you
> > didn't miss
> > the emails. you have a whole alpha phase to do things during (as long as
> they
> > are not breaking api). this alpha won't be perfect. far from it.
> >
> > but i'm sad to see you upset at me, yet there is nothing i could have
> done to
> > prevent it as the source of it all is yourself and your actions, so it's
> > something you have to come to terms with. sorry. as i said - i trust
> > your word.
> > you've earned that over the many years. :(
>
> Yes, I'm upset, because, now, the development is a mess. You, the lead dev,
> announce a release (which is great), but you accept that, after that
> announce,
> plenty of people commit plenty of stuff, with maybe a broken API, not
> respecting the implicit naming rule (like in eet, for example... But it's
> too
> late now for this lib). Cedric finished his changes on edje yesterday (btw,
> is
> it really finished, tested, etc... ?).
>
> I would have preferred that kind of announce:
>
> "Since 2 weeks, the points i mentioned (edje format, etc...) are now in
> svn. Do
> you guys think that it's mature ? One week for testing and cleaning could
> be
> sufficient. I plan a release one week"
>
> Or something like that. And not annoucing the alpha release the day after
> the
> last commit of cedric on the new edje format. I would have agreed without
> any
> problem with that kind of announce. We wait for several years for a
> release.
> One week to check the API and *potential big* problems after such a big
> change
> like the new edje format is important.
>
> That's my point of view
>
> Vincent
>
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