Re: GNOME 2.0 Schedule

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 10 Oct 2001, Iain wrote:

> > The good news is that there is no
> > reason in the world we can't release a new version of GNOME (2.0.1 or even
> > 2.2) relatively soon after 2.0.  Shorter release cycles would be good, I
> > think.
> > 
> 
> Because we'll get users/journos who judge Gnome 2 by the state of the
> Gnome2.0 release. Remember "GNOME is buggy" because of the state of
> gnome 1.0 even though Gnome 1.0.1 was better? We will be judged on the
> state of the gnome 2.0 release, and if Gnome 2.0 doesn't have any reason
> to upgrade or any user visible changes then people will think that gnome
> 2.0.1 will have no user visible changes.
> 

By the same account, doing 1.4.1 is also extremely pointless. We should
have delayed gnome 1.4 to around now. 

> And if we're releasing gnome 2.0, but it's not going to be any better
> (user wise) than gnome 1.4 (and lets be honest, it's not), and then

I'm not sure where rthis myth comes from.

> releasing gnome 2.0.1 (or even 2.2) a few months later, then why not
> delay the gnome 2.0 release by a month?
> 

See above for gnome 1.4.1. Just because you are delaying it by a month
does not mean people will spend that time making the delayed by one month
gnome2 better. They will just go off an hack new, irrelevant and totally
buggy features.

> Or another option is:
> We release the gnome 2.0 platform when we are happy with it and then
> when we've got what would be this mystical wonder release you suggest
> for 2.0.1 (or 2.2 (heck, talk about version inflation)) release it as
> the gnome 2.0 desktop.
> 

Because gnome2.0.1 or gnome2.2 or gnome2.3 or gnome3 of gnomeX (aka
gnome10) or whatever are not going to be wonder releases aswell. There is
no such beast.

> 
> > Absolutely.  It's often very small things, such as the default look and feel
> > that add so much polish to a release.
> 
> Polish is useless if no-one is using it.
> 
> iain
> 
> -- 
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> it's the troubles that cause the rebels." - Carl Oglesby
> 

	Sander

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