Re: What are the community's goals for 2.0? [was Re: Getting serious about releasing]

[mawarkus t-online de (Matthias Warkus)]

+++ Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:40:11AM -0500 +++
Steve Fox e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> > But I can't speak for the community. So, tell me- are you, the
> > community, happy with Works For Me? Would you prefer Works? 
> 
> Speaking as a beta-tester (not a GNOME developer :), I would even be
> embarassed if GNOME 2 went out in its current shape.
> 
> People will definitely judge GNOME based on the 2.0 release, no matter
> how much "this is a developer's release" verbage accompanies the release
> notes. User's simply don't care. 2.0 means the developers thought "we're
> done".

A developers' release should me named GNOME 1.5 or GNOME 1.9 or such.
A developers' release with a trailing zero would be pretty stupid
marketing.
 
mawa
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