Re: Request for comment (GNOME Shell team): release date for GNOME 3.0

[John Vorstermans <john vorstermans co nz>]

Thanks for the summary, really helpful.

As for time considerations, I would suggest going with  Owen's 
suggestion.  A long beta cycle would be a good for everyone, allowing 
for user feedback and making the required improvements before any RC 
releases.

Better to come out with a polished product that meets all the Release 1 
criteria than to rush something which gives a bad impression which is 
later very hard to change.

John

On 04/11/09 09:45, Owen Taylor wrote:
> Time considerations
> ===================
>
> There's not, in my estimation, to finish the current work, user test,
> change it, polish performance and quality, and then ship that by March.
>
> What part of that equation got cut out would be flexible, but the end
> effect would be that a GNOME 3 in March with GNOME Shell would be beta
> quality - we'd have to either lock it down and freeze it without
> finishing everything, or we'd be changing stuff up to the last minute.
>
> If we were really desperate for a GNOME 3 at this point, we could
> do that, but I don't get the sense that is the case; generally the lack
> of a GNOME 3 isn't blocking people from building desktops with
> incremental improvements. It makes more sense to take our time and
> do a really good job.
>
>
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