[Adium-devl] GSoC 2007 student branches

[Michael]

Chris Forsythe wrote:
>
> On May 30, 2007, at 6:31 PM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 30, 2007, at 6:29 PM, Chris Forsythe wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On May 30, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't want to get into the headache of having 1.0.5 come out after  
>>>> 1.1. That just doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
>>>
>>> I don't see how it doesn't make sense. I believe the apache project 
>>> used the approach and didn't have a lot of problems with it (someone 
>>> correct me if I'm wrong).
>>>
>>> Chris
>>
>>
>> If I may weigh in, Adium and Apache serve two almost diametrically 
>> opposed publics. People who download apache builds/sources are either 
>> sysadmins, packagers and/or developers and therefore are likely to 
>> understand multiple releases of the same product existing 
>> concurrently, including a seemingly "older" release (1.4.4) being 
>> "released" after a "newer" one (Apache 2.0). Adium users, on the 
>> contrary, are most probably traditional Mac users who, not 
>> necessarily underestimating them, only want to click on buttons and 
>> open menus; in my opinion they are likely to be confused by this 
>> "release disorder", as I think they'll see it. So based on that, I do 
>> believe releasing Adium 1.0.5 after 1.1 doesn't make much sense.... 
>> for the likely Adium public at least.
>>
>> Again, just my thoughts ;-)
>>
>
> That's very true.
>
> Let's look at a for instance here. What if there's a bug in 1.0.5 that 
> causes big problems? It's not like we're going to replace the 1.1 
> stuff on macupdate with 1.0.6, we'd just update the appcast and update 
> the "if you have 10.3..." url on the front page to be 1.0.6 (if we had 
> a 1.0.6).
>
> What if we had a 1.0.x appcast and a 1.1+ appcast?
>
> Chris
>
Well, I think it all comes down to how you promote it.

It is safe to assume most users are on 10.4. A quick look at the Sparkle 
statistics (although maybe not extremely accurate) shows around 95% of 
the users are on some version of 10.4. Adium can safely focus on 10.4 users.

When 1.1 arrives it will be the focal point of the front page. 1.0.5 (or 
perhaps 1.0.6) can just be an appcast for the few remaining 10.3 users 
and a blurb like "If you're using OS X 10.3, you'll want Adium 
1.0.5/1.0.6." somewhere down below, just like it reads now for 10.2 
users. No big announcements so very little confusion. The masses on 10.4 
will probably never even notice as Sparkle will just update 1.0.4 to 1.1 
and 1.1 to 1.2.

Michael