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

[Chris Lyttle <chris wilddev net>]

On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 10:05, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 06:23, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > picking bugs and fixing them :) If we really are building momentum, it
> > > seems like we should be capitalizing on that and standing firm on our
> > > quality goals, not giving in and cutting things just as (from where I
> > > stand) things are getting good from an involvement perspective. I for
> > 
> > Well, I, for one, am losing momentum. Lack of feedback, general porting
> > boredom, and it's not like Gnome is putting any bread on my table.
> 
> Fair enough. Am I misreading people? Is this common in the non-vendor
> community? Kevin, Paolo, others? If so, that's a fairly good argument
> for getting the thing out the door...
> 

I dont blame the developers for loosing momentum. It seems to me as a
user that every time someone stands up and says 'OK lets get organised
about releaseing, what can we punt?' Someone else says 'noooo we aren't
ready lets delay till blah' I for one am getting annoyed at my KDE using
friends pointing out how KDE has gone through 2 major releases and
GNOME2 still isn't out. That in my mind will kill not only developer
interest/momentum but also user interest. 
Come on lets punt the bugs that dont need to be fixed and get it out the
door.

Chris