On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 04:58:00PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > Final release has been delayed to Wednesday, > if we don't find any more critical bugs. Please upgrade.
Matthew, you should absolutely not have made this decision without discussion. Delaying the final release at this late date has massive repercussions, and given that you have stated that this change is extremely unlikely to cause a regression, I am absolutely against it. On Monday, whether we like it or not, the 0.5 release will be announced in a number of high-profile publications. Many of the journalists I spoke to gave Friday as the cut-off day that I could ask them to pull-back the release. That is just the way it works. Delaying the release at this date would make the release an unmitigated PR disaster. Further, doing a mandatory upgrade at this point would be the worst possible time we could ever possibly want to do a mandatory upgrade short of just after the 0.5 release. Given that most of you seem to think that publicity is some kind of dirty word - allow me to spell it out: that means greatly reduced donations, making it virtually impossible that we will be able to continue to employ Matthew, meaning that development is likely to stagnate again after Nov 11th as it as it always seems to when we don't have someone working on Freenet full-time - as well as missing our best opportunity in over a year to educate more people about Freenet. It further means that my relationship with a number of important journalists who have been extremely supportive of this project may be permanently soured. Ian. -- Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20021026/ee430b60/attachment.pgp>
