[ros-dev] Why??

[Jonathon Keogh]

Hi, sorry about the lateness on this.

Here's a conversation I had with someine in IRC:
[22:21:40] <x512dev> do you know what the deal is? i thought they were 
going to go to 0.3.0 after 0.2.7...now they released 0.2.8 and 0.2.9 is 
in the works :|
[22:21:53] <Jonny> lol gimmie a sec
[22:23:21] <x512dev> amazing how much of WinNT they've implemented in a 
16MB iso
[22:23:29] <Jonny> Yeah :|
[22:26:14] <Jonny> >> I quote from the ReactOS Weekly Newsletter - 
Volume 1, Issue 8
[22:26:14] <Jonny> >>
[22:26:14] <Jonny> >> "0.2.9? Another One?
[22:26:14] <Jonny> >>
[22:26:14] <Jonny> >> Yup, we have another release planned for you all. 
0.2.9 is our last
[22:26:14] <Jonny> >> release before the very-much-anticipated 0.3.0 
release."
[22:27:01] <Jonny> ohh
[22:27:02] <Jonny> wair
[22:27:04] <Jonny> *wait
[22:27:05] <Jonny> >
[22:27:05] <Jonny> > Could we stop saying that?  0.3.0 is not the 
release after 0.2.9, nor
[22:27:05] <Jonny> > 0.2.8, nor 0.2.5!  0.3.0 will happen when we hit 
the stated goals, and
[22:27:05] <Jonny> > unless networking gets some serious attention, we 
will see 0.2.10.
[22:27:17] <x512dev> :|
*[22:27:46] <x512dev> 0.2.10...wow...i would go to 0.2.9.1, sounds 
better....hell, 0.2.9R2 sounds better than .10*
[22:27:47] <Jonny> So, please, can we stop saying "This is the last 
release before
[22:27:47] <Jonny> > 0.3.0"? It makes us look bad, and confuses people 
when we release yet
[22:27:47] <Jonny> > another 0.2.x.
[22:27:47] <Jonny> >
[22:27:47] <Jonny> > Don't get me wrong, we are closer to 0.3.0 than 
ever before, but there
[22:27:47] <Jonny> > are still many bugs.
[22:27:54] <Jonny> lol
[22:28:12] <x512dev> techincally, in math, .10 = .1, lol
[22:28:16] <x512dev> 9 steps back...
[22:28:21] <Jonny> Yeah O.o
*[22:28:27] <Jonny> why not 0.2.9a ? :|*
[22:29:05] <x512dev> that works too

Just a thought, you've confused some people on this, why not instead of 
going to 0.2.10, go to 0.2.9a? And just claim "there's a few fixes we 
need to do before 0.3.0" (or something)?


Jonny

WaxDragon wrote:

>I quote from the ReactOS Weekly Newsletter - Volume 1, Issue 8
>
>"0.2.9? Another One?
>
>Yup, we have another release planned for you all. 0.2.9 is our last
>release before the very-much-anticipated 0.3.0 release."
>
>Could we stop saying that?  0.3.0 is not the release after 0.2.9, nor
>0.2.8, nor 0.2.5!  0.3.0 will happen when we hit the stated goals, and
>unless networking gets some serious attention, we will see 0.2.10.
>
>So, please, can we stop saying "This is the last release before
>0.3.0"? It makes us look bad, and confuses people when we release yet
>another 0.2.x.
>
>Don't get me wrong, we are closer to 0.3.0 than ever before, but there
>are still many bugs.
>
>WD
>--
><Russell> argh
><Russell> iterator shenanigans :/
>
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