On Friday 20 August 2010 05:46:26 am Ian Clarke wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:43 AM, xor <xor at gmx.li> wrote: > > Next week is not realistic. I'm trying to hurry things up as much as I > > can. Please be patient. Tomorrow I will hopefully solve another 3-5 bugs > > in the bug > > tracker and commit a load of new code which I've written this week. > > > > Notice that I am not for a release now because there is stuff which needs > > to be > > done before we have a large userbase / message base because it would > > require > > very difficult database upgrade code. > > > > And especially the list of language codes for the board prefixes must be > > changed before we release so that people don't start posting in boards > > with obsolete language codes... > > > > But well, there are only 10 bugs left for the FT bug tracker, thats > > manageable > > and I am confident that we can release in the very near future. > > Ok. It would be extremely useful if you could commit to some specific date > by which FreeTalk will be ready. I know that people hate committing to > dates for things, especially when they are volunteering their efforts, but > there are legitimate reasons why it would be extremely helpful to have a > reasonably solid timeline if we are to generate significant publicity > around the release. > Even if you were to just give 3 estimates, optimistic, realistic, and > pessimistic. > > Also, are all 10 remaining bugs likely to break backward compatibility in a > way that requires that we delay until they are all resolved? > > Ian. >
I have written a detailed mail which can be considered as a reply to this even though it does not contain a date, see: [freenet-dev] (Important) Freetalk status update I don't want to do estimates right now because I have had only 4 hours of sleep today, I will try to do an estimate tomorrow if I get enough sleep today.. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20100822/d0405a32/attachment.pgp>
