On Saturday 08 March 2003 22:12, Matthew Langham wrote:
> week we needed to quickly showcase Cocoon 2.1-dev for an extremely large > company interested in using Cocoon as a central part of their > infrastructure. We couldn't. This is called over-selling, and happens all the time for all kind of reasons, not only to pre-beta OSS projects. IMHO, you have been "caught wih your pants down", by "selling" a show that you didn't know if it existed or not (which is definition of pre-beta). I have done this before, and learnt that not to open the mouth until I have a running demo on my own machine. > And yes - of course we keep saying that Cocoon 2.1 is alpha and that > anything can happen - but that is just being too naiive. How long has it > been publicly available? How many installations are using 2.1-dev already? > How many users are waiting for a beta so they can publicly state that they > are using Cocoon? Me and Alex Romayev are jointly running 2.1-dev "for fun and family", but I used a snapshot a month or so back, and they should still be around, don't they? A bit of patching source and you could get the latest fixes in without breaking the samples.... > So please, stop admiring yourselves in the mirror and bring back the > samples! So please, stop complaining about pre-release code. If you don't like it, fix it ;o) Niclas
