[Adium-devl] Effects of blogging about the beta

[Andrew Harvey]

On 24/08/2006, at 9:34 PM, Christopher Forsythe wrote:

> So 3 points that might knock down a bunch of items in the milestone:
>
> - At this point, if we drop the policy of requiring that no
> regressions from .89.1 be in 1.0, then we could probably cut the
> milestone down by 1/3.

Wow. In my opinion, this is a majorly Bad Plan™. Regressions,  
especially in integer releases should be seen as unacceptable except  
in extremely rare exceptional circumstances. Ignoring regressions  
just because this release is taking longer than expected is not a way  
to get a good product out.

Proxy support, which makes up 2 of the tickets marked as regressions,  
is a pretty major part of an IM app. It once worked beautifully, and  
on occasion (particular celestial alignments are required) works okay  
(I actually managed to use HTTP proxying to get out of my school  
network rather than SOCKS the other day and was surprised when it  
worked for a while.

I know I'm not a dev, but there are my thoughts, all the same.
Andrew (Synapse)