Mama Cass Elliot wrote:
> In netscape.public.mozilla.general the people heard Pratik say these
> wise words:
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>> Nice review
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>> http://browserwatch.internet.com/news/stories2001/news-20010823-1.html
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> The article claims that Netscape 6.1 is "finished software". How on
> earth can that be if it's based on Mozilla, and given that Mozilla
> is not yet finished?
Because "finished" is a relative term. Were IE1, IE2, IE3, IE4 IE5
finished products? Obviously not because IE6 is coming out soon and
eventually will also be replaced by IE7. Nothing wrong with that. There
is no such thing as "finished software". v1.0 is not a magic number.
Some people set a series of features/functionality, polish and
reliability that when reached, a milestone is cut. At one point a
milestone will be called 1.0 but the process will continue with many
more intermediate milestones until reaching a specific milestone that
will be cut as 2.0. Netscape decided that 0.92.1 is the finished
milestone they will call Netscape 6.1. Another company might decide that
Moz 2.0 will be their v1.0, nothing wrong with that either. e.g.
Mandrake Linux 8.0 is based on kernel 2.4.3 Mandrake Linux 8.1 will be
based on linux kernel 2.4.8 or maybe 2.4.9.
A more appropiate question would be, Is Moz 0.92.1 stable enough,
feature rich enough and functional enough to merit be called Netscape
6.1? I think feedback from many sources shows it is.
Maybe Moz developers should have kept the old Milestone numbering
system. like Milestone 18, 19, 20,45, 46, etc. and maybe tag a specific
one as Stable (Quality) Release. After all Mozilla's target audience are
software developers and integrators, not "lay" people.
My $0.02.
