Hey everybody, Software is hard. I feel bad to even suggest this after how hard all the Ubiquity contributors have been working towards this release over the past few weeks, but I am thinking about pushing the 0.5 release back a couple more weeks, until I have returned from my trip. I just got done talking to Atul and he strongly suggested doing so, for the following reasons:
1. The server-side components (bug reporter, command search engine, etc) are not anywhere near ready. I've been working on them all day and discovered that the job is much, much bigger than I thought. I thought it was going to be a one-day thing but it looks more like we will have to seriously rethink the server infrastructure if we want to offer bug reporting and command search services to our users. 2. Support: After we release 0.5 onto addons.mozilla.com, since it is such a big change to how ubiquity works, there is bound to be a huge influx of users with support requests, maybe more serious bugs discovered, etc. This would be happening while I was gone and not able to help with any of the support work. Leaving the users hanging with new problems due to 0.5 might be a worse thing to do to them than making them wait another couple of weeks to get 0.5. 3. Features: If we push it back, we will have time to try to put in some of the features we cut out: Suggestion memory, provider-plugin arguments, and most of all, asynchronous noun-first suggestion (in a way that doesn't count as a DDOS attack on Yelp). So, if we push it back, then we'll be able to do a more polished release, with the server-side components working, and at a time when I'll be available to help with the support and bug fixing and the inevitable patches that will be needed. This isn't just my decision, though. What does everybody else think of pushing the release back? --Jono --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
