On 01/02/2010 08:53 PM, Omari Stephens wrote: > Unfortunately, for whatever different reasons, we're having a lot of > trouble pulling things together. Regardless of what the reasons are, we > can't let this continue to kill the development momentum that geeqie's > been building over the past many months. Consider that in June of 2009, > there were 68 commits made to the geeqie repository. This has dropped > to just 6 in November and 7 in December. Basically, we're dead in the > water. > > That said, we need to get 1.0 out the door. Despite having a lot of > incomplete translations and documentation, we've still done a ton of > work that other folks should have access to. There's more work to be > done, undoubtedly, but what's there now is still pretty good and very > usable. Maybe 1.0 won't be quite as awesome as we'd hope, but there is > life after 1.0 — right now, we need the opportunity to keep developing > and keep improving things, rather than sitting in a never-ending release > freeze. We need to be able to accept contributions of code before the > contributors get frustrated and move on to other things. > > In short, I would strongly suggest that we set a 1.0 release date > sometime in January, preferably early rather than late January, and > stick to it. It might not be the quality of release we were hoping for, > but at this point, it's more important to be able to continue moving > forward than to try to make this release perfect, which will never happen. >
I agree... string freeze should be announced a few days before, so I and whoever still listens can update our translations :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
