[Adium-devl] Effects of blogging about the beta

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Aug 24, 2006, at 8:59 AM, Andrew Harvey wrote:

>
> 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.

Agree strongly with Colin and Andrew.  Any regression at all is  
unacceptable moving forward when we know it exists.  Unexpected  
regressions with a changeset as large as Adium 1.0's are, well, to be  
expected, on some level... but to say, "If you use a proxy. stick  
with Adium 0.89.  If you use ICQ, stick with Adium 0.89.  If you use  
certain brands of routers, stick with Adium 0.89.  If you use an SSH  
tunnel, stick with Adium 0.89.  If you have a SecurID AIM account,  
stick with Adium 0.89.  If you use substitution keywords in your MSN  
display name, stick with Adium 0.89.  If you send messages in Chinese  
or other languages with 2-bit characters and want to view your logs,  
stick with Adium 0.89." is insane.

Priority on regressions should be highest, not lowest; if we fixed  
all regressions tomorrow, I'd say we were ready for a final beta  
release followed by server and mental preparation for the real deal.

-Evan