As Jono already mentioned a number of the reasons I gave to strongly push for a release today, it suffices to say that I agree whole- heartedly with Blair. Amen.
I'm fine with a Tuesday release, but we should make it a firm commitment and we should make it crystal clear on trac and/or the list (ideally both) *EXACTLY* what the blockers are that we are up against (if any). m > > I think Personas has a dual release schedule - one for the client, one > for the server-side stuff. It seems to work pretty well, and I don't > see > why that method couldn't be applied to Ubiquity. To me, client > (Ubiquity) and server (Herd) are two separate products. > > I don't think the release should be pushed back for new features. For > serious bugs yes, but there's nothing major blocking that I know of. > There's no such thing as a perfect release - there will always be > something that could have been fixed, could have been better. > > So I'm for releasing now. Or Tuesday if really necessary. But not > any later. > > - Blair > > > > On 3/07/09 1:09 PM, Jono wrote: >> >> P.S. remember that if upgrading to 0.5 breaks a user's favorite >> third-party command, they can always go back to parser 1 using the >> Settings page. >> (Anybody doing support should keep this in mind as it will be a >> common >> complaint.) >> --Jono >> >> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Jono<[email protected]> wrote: >>> How about we release Tuesday? Mitcho points out the following >>> reasons >>> we should release after all: >>> >>> 1. if we push it back we will be letting down all the people who >>> have >>> already blogged/written/read about the 0.5 release >>> 2. the XPI itself is ready >>> 3. The server components are not ready, but 0.5 without bug >>> reporter / >>> herd is at least not any worse than 0.1.8 without bug reporter/herd >>> 4. The rest of the community can handle support without me ;-) >>> 5. Getting people onto 0.5 will reduce the load on the >>> ubiquity.mozilla.com. >>> >>> We should replace the herd and bug reporter pages with notifications >>> that tell users those services are down for repair, and then focus >>> on >>> getting them working after the 0.5 release is out. >>> >>> Atul and Aza have agreed to manage the release while I'm gone. >>> --Jono >>> >> >>> > > > -- mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine) [email protected] http://mitcho.com/ linguist, coder, teacher --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
