* Curtis L. Olson -- Wednesday 30 November 2005 14:01:
> Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> > There was no discussion about this topic on flightgear-devel before
> > this order was announced, and every discussion after that was passively
> > suppressed by ignoring valid arguments. [...]

> I don't want to passively supress your points,

Good. I think that our code is not ready for 1.0, as long as it
doesn't implement (A) landing/taxi lights and (B) saving GUI states.
(There are others, but these two are the most important.)
You think that having release 1.0 *soon* is more important?

Is this what we'll see in the ChangeLog for 1.0? Two points?

 * fixed a few bugs that should really have been fixed in 0.9.9
 * JSBSim update; in the *best* case, everything works like before
   and users won't notice any difference.

This won't make headlines, at least no positive ones. Why wasting
the 1.0 number and the special attention for a bugfix release that
should really be called 0.9.9a or 0.9.9.1?



> By giving certain developers cvs write access, [...]

??

I'm trying to discuss the 1.0 release policy that was made off-list
and ignored any developer input so far (a.k.a. XFree86 development
style or "we want your code, not your opinion"). The cvs access
policy has nothing to do with it.

To make that clear: I fully respect your leadership! If you say 
that 1.0 will be released with no new features "because I, Curt,
say so", then it's OK. Then we know at least who made the decision
and on which technical arguments it's based on. And we know how much
time it's worth to spend for this release.

m.

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