Re: Did GNOME go 1.0 too early?

["Georg C. F. Greve" <greve gnu org>]

 || On 4 Mar 1999 08:00:14 +0100
 || tack@dok.org (Jason Tackaberry) wrote: 

 jt> I hope you don't read this as flame-bait.  Let's keep ourselves level
 jt> headed. :)

Of course. Did you expect anything else ? :-)

 jt> That said, I'm a bit worried about GNOME 1.0 being released too 
 jt> early.  

My thoughts exactly. If gmc wasn't considered "part of GNOME" then
maybe - although I think some other things also feel a little shaky.

Basically I believe it's a self-applied shot to the knee... a lot of
KDE people are out there and the only thing that kept them from
flaming GNOME was that one could always say "Hey, stay cool, it's
still  in development". Now it is supposed to be stable and we're
making it far too easy for them to find flaws. About 45 minutes after
the GNOME 1.0 release I have read a posting by a KDE zealot about him
"checking out GNOME now so he won't burn his mouth in the process of
determining what it's worth.". So we are inviting a huge wave of
negative postings.

The bigger problem is that I believe a lot of users will be
disappointed because things aren't easy to install or not
stable. I hate to play cassandra here but it is possible that a lot of
the developers may be flooded by "help me" or "you suck" mails.

Given another 2-6 weeks everything would have been fine, I think, and
I don't see why this needed to be rushed.

Regards,
	Georg

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Georg C. F. Greve <greve@gnu.org>
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