Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 5:02 PM -0500 8/27/01, Jim Bryant wrote:
>
>> Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>
>>> We can't just keep pushing back the release date because "some
>>> very important enhancements" could be made. It will ALWAYS be
>>> true that there are more "very important enhancements" on
>>> the horizon, and you can't keep running after those. You have
>>> to pick some point, and stick to that point, and "ship" at that
>>> point. As long as current is known to be in rapid flux, most
>>
>>
>> I'm glad you support integration of KSE then... As I recall such
>> threading was in the original design specs for 5.0, as released
>> when work on 5.0 began.
>
>
> I'm disappointed that you completely misunderstood what I intended
> to say in the above. My point is that sometimes you have to stick
> to a "ship date" because you have to stick to that date, and not
> because you stick to some list of features that you'd like to see.
> The longer you let ship-dates slip, the longer you end up without
> a release-quality product.
I to this day still think that was the reasoning behind the Thanksgiving [An American
Holiday] release of 2.0-R. What a disaster!
I know for a fact that MickeySoft has had this philosophy since at least Win-95..
What a disaster!
Marketing people screaming about ship-dates are the prime cause of unstable software,
IMHO. Software should be shipped when design
goals are met, not before.
Last I heard, 4.4-R is RSN... Why should there be a mad rush to release 5.0-R
practically right after 4.4-R, especially if it's not
yet ready for prime-time? At the rate things are going, even WITH KSE integrated,
5.0-R should be close to the currently projected
release date.
I forget... Wasn't the *ORIGINAL* release date for 5.0-R slated for early-2002? What
happened to that? Marketing types step in?
> I think a lot of good work has gone into the current cut at KSE
> support, and I certainly hope it goes in. However, there are a
> number of other factors to consider. The right way to get KSE in
> 5.0 is to help do the work which is necessary for that to happen,
> and not to deliberately misquote people -- as you are pretty
> clearly doing in the above. What I explicitly said in the above
> message (and which you explicitly deleted) was that KSE should
> wait for a later release if the remaining work is not done. If
> you have some other opinion, that is fine, but do not reword *my*
> opinion to claim that I agree completely with your opinion.
It was an asinine reply to an asinine comment, not a deliberate misquotation.
> Julian did a lot of good work, all he needs is a few more
> developers to help test that work. None of us need a thread
> arguing about release dates vs some goals set two years ago.
Somehow I see the GOP using that same argument next year concerning the tax-scam...
Medicare surplus wiped out, 9 billion into
Social Security starting next week... oops, off topic...
I agree with you to a point there. The design goals should be met. This isn't a
commercial product, and thus I don't see that the
argument that the release date should be set in stone is relevant, although it should
be close to that which was originally specified.
> I "support" the integration of KSE in the sense that I intend to
> help test it (on a dual-CPU i386) sometime in the next week. I
> do not support a delay of "5.0". I can not test on Alpha, as I
> have no Alpha machines. Anyone who wants to prove their support
> for KSE in 5.0 should step up and offer to do some of the testing,
> etc. Actions will speak louder than any (misquoted) words.
Again, I agree, except I still don't understand your dire need for a mad rush to have
another "Thanksgiving release" a la 2.0-R.
FreeBSD releases should be goal-oriented, not marketing-type oriented.
2.0-R left FreeBSD with reputation damage that took several years to clear up, I would
have thought that some had learned from that
"stick to the release date" experience. My first experience with -current sprang from
that experience [for a while -current was
more stable than -RELEASE, on freaking production systems]. It didn't take too long
to get -RELEASE stable though, as I recall.
Marketing types have a place: Selling RELEASED software and hardware... They should
not be the end-all word on ship dates though.
Hell, the Pentium 4 was a nice concept until...
jim
--
ET has one helluva sense of humor!
He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos!
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