[Adium-devl] Effects of blogging about the beta

[Christopher Forsythe]

On Aug 24, 2006, at 7:59 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.
>
> 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.

Alright, it was just a suggestion and everyone hated it. Let's drop it.

If everyone feels this way, then the best plan of action is probably  
to remove all items which are nonregressions.


Chris