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

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 01:05:40PM -0400, 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, too, am losing momentum, for reasons similar to Bastien. But my experience
argues for the opposite conclusion from the one Louie has drawn. 

One reason for my frustration and loss of momentum has been a realization that
sometime soon we're going to put a "done" stamp and this thing and ship it,
even if it has not yet achieved the quality I would like.

A more formal recognition that we have a standard of quality, and that we are
willing to wait in order to meet it, would help my enthusiasm, not hurt it.

Cheers,

John