David Lyon schreef:
Vincent Snijders wrote:
I thought the traditional open source says:
"We made this wonderful tool which serves our purposes well. Feel free
to use it too. We make no guarantees, that it works for you too. If
you have improvements, please sends us the patches."
And not:
"We made this wonderful tool which serves your purposes well. It is
almost finshed, gives us money to work on it (while it might
realistically not be that ready)."
Looking at the web application and packaging mails written by you, I
have my doubts that you can estimate the amount of work needed to make
it ready for mass consumption.
Vincent....
you're just playing with words....
I hope you see the difference.
I thought you said there are 700+ defects to fix..... shouldn't you be
working ? :-)
I was:
http://www.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?root=lazarus&rev=11837&view=rev
ok, I do estimations on software commercially and take your point. Maybe
it will take a little longer.
One of the lessons I was taught about software engineering, is that you
should fix bugs before adding new functionality. Estimating the time
needed to implement new functionality is easier than estimating the time
needed to fix bugs, because most of the time you don't know the cause,
so you don't know what needs to be done to fix it.
Fixing bugs first makes it easier to create a good estimate for 1.0.
Vincent
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