Re: GNOME 1.0 !!

[Gleef <dzol virtual-yellow com>]

On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Pierre-Louis Vincent wrote:
> > Please, could someone give me an answer other than wait..when its 
> > done..etc .?? Please!! I really need to know an approximatve date...
> > 
> 
> If you *need* to know for a good reason, you're out of luck. No software
> delivery date estimate in the history of the world has ever been accurate
> by design. People get lucky sometimes perhaps. 
> 
> Free software is even worse about this, because we are not employed on a
> regular schedule. Therefore the "official" free software policy is not to
> answer this question.
> 
> The current estimate is Very Soon, like days/weeks. However, don't be
> surprised if that's incorrect in either direction. You should not base
> important decisions on it.

On a related note, don't assume that release 0.99.9 will be followed by
release 1.0.  GNOME wouldn't be the first project to follow it with a
release 0.99.10.

-Gleef