Alan sent this to me and I thought that it was relevant, so as he instructed, I forwarded it to the whole list. Yes, he's right. It's really easy to lose a 'customer' (heh, heh. i'm really the furthest thing from a marketroid most of the time. but anyway) and never get him back. We definitely want as many bugs reported as possible, especially with testcases. pat ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 01:57:16 +0100 (IST) From: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Patrick Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Cool stuff & release plans >From my understanding of how versioning is supposed to go, version 1.0 is exactly the same as version 0.9 + nothing but bugfixes I know people who will NOT use software until it is at least > 1.0 once some one has tried Abiword and decided they dont like it, i think it will be very hard to get them to try it again. On that basis i think stabitlity and lack of bugs are more important than features for 1.0 Although finding bugs is what im best at :) Its all good, once there is a Plan (and a timeframe). (if you feel this is particulary relevant feel free to forward it to the whole list) On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Patrick Lam wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Dom Lachowicz wrote: > > agree. 1.0 by year's end would be a good timeframe, IMNSHO. > If we release a 1.0 then we're saying that we have something that we think > is useful and can do real things. It should also be reasonably free of > bugs. I think that people do download a 1.0 release more than a 0.8 > release because there's some expectation that it's `finished' in some > sense 1.0 should be as stable as it can be, rock solid if possible. > Something that needs to be done at some point is a big bug-fixing > spree; our bug count has recently tended to keep going up, not down.
