To be clear, I'm not advocating that we push it off that much, nor that we should make a perfect release. Given my track record arguing for more agile development and experimentation I would think everyone would realize that... I'm not looking for it to be perfect, I just don't think we're at the "good enough" stage yet.
There's been some great review and conversation on IRC looking at the most obvious bugs I randomly pulled from the list as seeming to be "blockers" in my mind, FWIW. On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Scott Merrill <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Andy C <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why don't we just slip 0.6 to 25 July 2009. One full calendar year > > after the last major release. We should be able to get something close > > to perfection ready by then. > > The perfect is the enemy of the good. We'll never release perfect > software. Every single release we make will contain bugs and > shortcomings. > > We need to evaluate the list of bugs to identify those that are real > impediments to the function of the software. Bugs affecting large > numbers of users obviously need attention. Bugs that affect users of a > single browser, in limited circumstances, might be annoying and > somewhat tarnish the project's reputation; but they're not > release-critical bugs in my mind. > > > Do you remember when Monolith was just dropped on the world and the > > flurry - no sorry frenzy of coding activity - that followed it ? > > > > Maybe Owen is drawing a line in the sand hoping for a similar flurry > > of activity to address some of those 77 tickets ? > > > > I hear what you say about a poor quality release alienating and > > possibly losing potential Habari users. > > > > But seriously, I think some people outside of the project think Habari > > is dead. Or lying, motionless on life support. > > > > On Mar 17, 5:50 pm, Chris Meller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've said it before, I'll say it again... 0.6 is not ready. I don't > think > >> we'll be at all proud if we release 0.6 by this weekend. > >> > >> For example, there are currently 77 active tickets assigned with the 0.6 > >> milestone:http://trac.habariproject.org/habari/report/3 > >> > >> You can find several that are long-term goals that wouldn't apply, but > the > >> vast majority are things that I would be appalled if we were to ship > with. > >> They may not be major, but they make it reek of a sub-standard release > that > >> was rushed out the door. > >> > >> Release early, release often. Do not release for the sake of releasing. > >> > >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Owen Winkler <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> > Habari 0.6 is in makaanga at r3337. > >> > >> > Please test, apply fixes (only fixes) to the makaanga branch, and > >> > prepare for a release, hopefully this weekend. > >> > >> > Owen > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
