On Wed 13. March 2002 12:26, sam th wrote: > On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 04:41, Jesper Skov wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 11:33, Andrzej Pruszynski wrote: > > > > We want to ship 1.0 soonish so we can start working on new features. > > > > 1.0 will have plenty of known bugs, but hopefully it will have zero > > > > or very few crasher bugs. > > > > > > For me it is clear: new features = more bugs. > > > And never ending story with bugs as ms. > > > > Ah, but you miss part of the issue here: we work on AbiWord because it's > > fun. Fixing bugs forever is not fun. We want to add new features too. So > > we have to make a 1.0 at some time, with warts and all, so we can again > > start to "implement bugs". > > > > You probably want to read > > http://abisource.com/support/expectations.phtml if you haven't already. > > What Jesper says is certainly right. But there's more to it than that. > What our users want is new features. The most voted-for bugs in > bugzilla are requests for new features. Those won't get implemented > before we release 1.0.
I am not involved in source code and don't know, but estimate a risk. Sometimes new features build on unstable fundaments directs to a global crush. I am deeply with you. So, please take sharing my thoughts as my support, not against you. In every day life I love to find and kill my own "bugs" - not only for fun. Andrzej Pruszynski
