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

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 09:23, Matthias Warkus wrote:
> +++ 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.

Is there some way we can get away with a 1.9? If so, would that be
substantially different in some way from all the betas we've already
done? If so, how? These are honest questions; if we can do it well from
a release/PR perspective, it's not a bad solution, and certainly ties in
with what Owen is saying about library stability and API guarantees.

Luis