At 01:08 PM 8/18/2006 -0500, you wrote: >I feel it's important to get "1.0" out there to draw a line in the sand, >that we're at least "1.0" quality. We can do what MS-DOS could do. Maybe >we have a few bugs, but (and maybe this is a sad fact) what "1.0" >software doesn't have bugs? People expect it. But marking a "1.0" >release means you can start to work on stuff after "1.0". For example: I >really want to extend what capabilities you have available in DOS.
I've rethought my own idea on this a little bit. Take it for what it's worth. The 1.0 release announcement motivated a lot of people to test things at lot harder, or maybe just a lot more people tested it at all, or a combination of the two. The net result is the same; I personally have more support/feature requests and bug reports than I've had in aggregate for the past couple of years. All of them squashed together in the last month. I don't think I'm alone in that, the kernel looks to be under heavy update for one. And new install issues continue to be posted by new members. To be honest, I didn't anticipate the level of increase relative to the 1.0 announcement. Even the list subscriber counts appear to be up. But now we're running up against the deadline. I don't have time to stick everything in HIMEM/EMM386 that people want (apparently with pathological consequences), and I have to carefully weigh all changes against the possibility that they'll break something for someone somewhere. Surely I'm not alone in that situation. Maybe the release deadline needs little extra flexibility. Not like it was before. Oh, please, pretty please, not that. Just something like "it's coming out, but right now we're clearing the flood of new reports from the initial 1.0 release announcement to ensure a quality experience". And as soon as bug reports die down -- not to the SAME level, but to a SANE level -- then a bit more testing of the final image and we're good to go. Basically, what I'm asking for, and I can't believe I'm doing it, is for a bit more time to pass, keeping the release based on feedback levels and with an eye on a firm release date in a timely fashion. Your original announcement of a month should have worked fine where FreeDOS was when you made it, but the act of the announcing changed all that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
