On March 20, 2002 01:47 am, Michael Robertson wrote: [...] > they'll think it sucks. If however the public commitment is "this software > is designed to run the following: > MS Word > Lotus Notes > Quicken" > and it actually works, you have a believer. You have someone who will get > excited and will offer their help. You give momentum to Wine. You get > program sponsors (those willing to oversee ongoing supervision/testing of > programs. You get more people offering to be on documentation teams. And > you get more developers.
This is well understood by most people, and this is what we call 09/1.0. That's why it is so important to nail the tasks left for 0.9. You see, 0.9 is not 'all chords', but rather 'a handful of notes' such that we start 'playing a few tunes well'. -- Dimi.
