Alpha, beta, gamma, .. [Was: Re: [jdom-interest] detach() [eg]]

Fri Apr 27 13:24:13 PDT 2001

At 10:49 AM -0700 4/27/01, elephantwalker wrote:
>I agree on this one.
>
>Pick a day. Freeze the product, start the beta-program, only fix
>bugs...release 1.0.
>
>Move everything on the dev tree after the freeze to 1.1.
>

It's not that simple. Once we hit 1.0 we can add new things but it's 
much harder to take out old things, even if they're brain damaged or 
holding us back. The changes we can make between now and 1.0 are 
qualitatively different than what we can do between 1.0 and 1.1 or 
1.1 and 2.0.
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