Tim McNerney wrote:
>
> Ian Hickson wrote:
> > The only firm date I've ever heard from mozilla.org
> > for a 1.0 release date is "when it's ready".
>
> I'm glad Apache doesn't use the same dictionary as
> mozilla.org, cause apparently "ready" is defined as
> "when nobody cares anymore".
Nobody will care anymore if we release before it's ready.
Netscape already proved that with its 6.0 release. How
many people were turned off when they tried running NS 6?
Will they come back? Not so fast. This is a high-profile
open source project, and while marketing tactics may
excuse Netscape, they won't help us.
You say that everyone is impatiently waiting for 1.0.
But are they waiting for a release to be branded 1.0,
or for a release to be 1.0 quality? Don't confuse the
two.
> It's fine if you want to go on about how you can do
> whatever you want and release only when everyone is
> happy and no one can do anything about it.
The release won't be when everyone is happy. It'll be
when all the 1.0 criteria--which we're defining now--
have been satisfied.
