On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, David Lyon wrote:
> Vincent Snijders wrote:
> > I mean, do you think Lazarus is ready for 1.0, if there are more than 700
> > open bug reports? To me, this is not only an indication that Lazarus is
> > being used, but also that it is not ready for 1.0 yet and adding new
> > components to it is the way to get it 1.0 ready.
> I was told early in my career that if you can't find at least 1000 defects in
> a complex software project then the testers aren't doing their jobs properly
> :-)
>
> Hey, it's a ver. 1.00. That already tells users to expect one or two things
> that don't work correctly to be sorted out in ver. 1.10
>
> More importantly, we have a deadline approaching....
>
> Systems-2007
>
> promotion time.....
Maybe, but not with version 1.0.
This is exactly why Lazarus is open source and not commercial, and why
the developers are hesitant about things as foundations: not to fall
in this trap. 1.0 will be released when it's developers believe it is
ready; Not when there is some external deadline.
The developers have a pretty good idea of what 1.0 should look like in
terms of functionality and bugfree-ness. As soon as their goals are
fulfilled, 1.0 will be released.
It would be far better and wise to attract sponsors to fullfill this goal.
Michael.
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