The docs in 1.5 were an issue. No question. That rattled the community and rightfully so. And they are fixed in 1.6.
Quality, from my perspective has never been higher. Go have a read of CordovaJS and then look at the JS for 1.3 and tell me that isn't a significant improvement! Across platforms we are more consistent than ever. As to adoption, downloads are up, roughly 10-25% week on week for 2012. I think a big part of that is the fact that we roll releases so quickly addressing issues immediately rather than holding out. On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Paul Beusterien <[email protected]> wrote: > My concern is more meta than any single release. It's about the PhoneGap > reputation erosion caused by degradation of quality and usability in recent > releases. > > Paul > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Brian LeRoux <[email protected]> wrote: > >> And, one more thing, if you have concerns about 1.7 lets start a thread >> for 1.7 >> >> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Brian LeRoux <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I wholeheartedly disagree Paul. These are fixes not changes. >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Paul Beusterien >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> "Which is a good thing" >> >> >> >> For who ?!?! >> >> >> >> Definitely not for users and prospective adopters, for whom the rapid >> pace >> >> of releases with new bugs, usability changes, misleading documentation >> and >> >> new configurations is a barrier to adoption. >> >> >> >> Paul >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Brian LeRoux <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Ok, everyone back away from the ledge! We discussed 1.7 as a bug fix >> >>> only release. (Excepting possibly CordovaView which I think might be >> >>> why Joe is concerned.) Again only bug fixes, and docs updates. The >> >>> date is arbitrary but the benefit is a release that is all about >> >>> hardening. >> >>> >> >>> Looks like we might even ship a point release between now and then. >> >>> Which is a good thing: not a bad thing. >> >>> >> >>> The longer a delay between releases the more things that can creep in >> >>> delaying further and making each point a monolith which increases our >> >>> odds of a bad release. [1] >> >>> >> >>> [1] >> >>> >> http://phonegap.com/2012/04/12/rolling-releases-how-apache-cordova-becomes-phonegap-and-why/ >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Patrick Mueller <[email protected]> >> >>> wrote: >> >>> > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:24, Brian LeRoux <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> > >> >>> >> For two bugs? Let's not get too excited. >> >>> >> >> >>> > >> >>> > from: http://wiki.apache.org/cordova/CuttingReleases >> >>> > >> >>> > 2012 **Estimated** Release Schedule >> >>> > ... >> >>> > * 1.7.x, Apr 30 >> >>> > >> >>> > So, we're on track to ship 1.7 in ~two weeks? >> >>> > >> >>> > -- >> >>> > Patrick Mueller >> >>> > http://muellerware.org >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Paul Beusterien >> >> http://www.mobiledevelopersolutions.com >> > > > > -- > Paul Beusterien > 1-650-918-7074 > skype:paul.beusterien > http://www.mobiledevelopersolutions.com
