In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brendan Eich wrote: > http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html > > Comments welcome.
Brendan, I'd like to see a release candidate period for 1.0 put into place. In the past serious bugs have slipped into milestone releases, and though we'll likely be more careful this time about late check-ins, it seems suicidal to indifferently schedule it as just another milestone. Though I still think we stabilized too early for the big 1.0, what's done is done, and there's no reason to rush it now to get back to unstable developments. The 1.0 release will be what a lot of people and the media judge our last three years and eleven months worth of work by. With a new level of media coverage, we don't want something stupid slipping in, or we'll be a laughingstock, having not gotten $FEATURE right after four years. 1.0.1 doesn't matter to these people. Other than fixing topcrash bugs, security issues seem like the other possible big embarrassment. If Netscape's security team (or, 'guy'), could hammer it especially hard now - rather than waiting for Netscape's branch - it might prove to be beneficial as well. I'll leave the details of timing up to drivers@. Keep in mind though, if we state beforehand something like: "OK, here's 1.0rc, everyone please download it to find any last minute issues before we release 1.0 final next week" we're not going to get many testers, as people are likely to wait the additional week for the "real thing". /jmd
