I don't know the status of the trunk since we are in a delivery phase for a 
customer, so its "code freeze" here, but I agree, this is a good idea.

On Dec 14, 2009, at 16:16 , Derrell Lipman wrote:

> I know i'm going to be ignored on this, but I feel sufficiently strongly 
> about it that I really think it needs to be said.
> 
> There have been a massive number of changes to trunk since the last 
> pre-release. The version 1.0 release is likely (we all hope!) to be picked up 
> by the press and tried and tested by many who have not used it. Although it's 
> possible that nothing is broken, I think it is really, really dangerous to 
> release this code as version 1.0 without doing pre-releases which are tested 
> by many people first.
> 
> I propose that Wednesday's planned release date be changed to a pre-release. 
> I believe that Europe pretty much shuts down for a number of weeks at the end 
> of the year. That would allow a month or so of testing and critical-bug 
> fixing (only!), followed by at least one more pre-release with those bugs 
> fixed, so that the actual 1.0 release in mid-January is much more properly 
> field-tested. I understand the desire to meet the originally-publicized 
> schedule, but this is the reputation of qooxdoo on the line. A 1.0 release is 
> not the time to rush out a release that has had substantial change and not a 
> lot of external testing.
> 
> Derrell
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