Ian Hickson wrote:
> we have thousands of known bugs, certainly enough to keep
> us busy for a year at least (more, at the current rate). What's the rush?
Ok, then please explain to me how it could happen that when
Netscape 6.0 was released, mozilla 1.0 was promised for/targeted at
the end of Q2 2001.
Basically, six months ago, mozilla.org raised the expectation that
the 1.0 release was six months away. Now, after these six months,
you say that it's at least twelve months away.
Does this mean that the engineers have worked hard to introduce
more bugs so that there are twice as many bugs now? Or is the
discovery rate of existing bugs several times higher than the
bug fix rate?
Or was the estimate just too optimistic, by a factor of at least three?
(I suppose it's the last one.)
The point is that if there is going to be at least another year before the
mozilla 1.0 release, then it's simply stupid to refuse any new features
from now on, because not everyone can fix standards compliance bugs.
(Of course, it would be nice if more people were helping with them.)
Just my opinion,
Andreas
