On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 01:12:28PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote:
> That is a rediculously conservative approach for any software, let-alone
> a beta product. It would virtually guarantee that we don't get a
> release for perhaps two months, while actively *discouraging* people
> from fixing minor bugs since that would further delay the release.
>
> Even Mozilla, with their 1.0 release did not have such a rediculously
> conservative approach. Be realistic. 0.5 doesn't have to be perfect,
> it merely has to be more stable that 0.3 (since technically 0.3 is the
> code that we are recommending people use until 0.5 is released). It met
> that criteria a LONG time ago.
I'm not convinced of that. But it certainly meets that criteria now, if
you exclude the Windows installer.
>
> Ian.
>
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 09:20:10PM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> > There is a simple algorithm for this:
> >
> > do {
> > freeze(code);
> > time = currentTime();
> > while (NOW < time + ONE_WEEK)
> > if (bugfound()) {
> > unfreeze(code);
> > fix(code);
> > continue;
> > }
> > }
> > release = code;
> > unfreeze(code);
> > return release;
> > } while (true);
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Oskar Sandberg
> > oskar at freenetproject.org
> >
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