Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Randall Parker wrote:
>
>>Frankly, I come away from reading this thread wondering why Moz 1.0 is going
>>to be released in a few months. The reasons must be political and business in
>>nature. From a technical standpoint its hardly ready to go up against the
>>competition and be favorably compared.
>>
>
> Hear hear. I have the same feelings coming from a standards compliance
> point of view -- we have thousands of known bugs, certainly enough to keep
> us busy for a year at least (more, at the current rate). What's the rush?
What is the rush? I've got to say that is about the funniest thing I've
read in a while. How can anyone describe trying to release version 1.0
of a project within 3.5 years of starting it as rushing it? Mozilla
needs to release version 1.0, not for business reasons, but out of sheer
pain of having a project running years late. I think the developers,
more than anything, need to reach that light at the end of the tunnel
which is the culmination of all their hard work. If you don't release
something at some point when it is "good enough", you'll never release
it. And smart money for the last couple years has been on the never
releasing it side.
--Tim
