On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:50:55PM +0100, Ortwin Gl?ck wrote: > Fair enough, Roland. You outnumber me. :-) > > Roland Weber wrote: > >[x] 3.0 is stable. Release 3.0 final in November > > > >Of the 6 bugs since the last RC, 3 are marked as trivial or enhancement, > >while the rest have been straightforward modifications. When looking > >around at what is going on here in my office, I consider this stable ;-) > > > >cheers, > > Roland >
Odi, Let us face the simple hard fact that all our quality assurance efforts are exclusively reactive. If there's a bug report or a post at the httpclient-user list, we'll react. Otherwise, we just go on with our daily routine. I do not think this is a major revelation to anyone vaguely familiar with OSS what all those release versions are purely fictional. We could have released 3.0rc3 as 3.0-final and 3.0rc4 as 3.0.1. The first RCs that we release are all in fact of solid BETA quality but certainly nowhere near release quality. There are certain type of users out there who just never use BETA software as a matter of principle. That's why we always experience a spike in bug reports as soon as we release the first RC because that greatly expands our user base to include all those 'will not touch no stinkin' BETA' type of folks. We can sit here and see bug reports trickle in at a rate of 2 trivial bug reports per month for the rest of our professional carrier, or we can declare 3.0 good enough and get our user base massively increased because all those managers will no longer feel that can get blamed for using BETA quality software in their VERY important business applications. To me there's only one true milestone in OSS, that is, the API freeze. All that goes beyond that is just an illusion of stability/instability Evil Comrade Oleg > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
