[280] in Athena User Interface
Re: GNOME 2.0: The incredible slipping release date.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maciej Stachowiak)
Thu Jul 13 20:41:43 2000
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU, Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>
Date: 13 Jul 2000 17:42:42 -0700
In-Reply-To: Bill Cattey's message of "Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:04:57 -0400 (EDT)"
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Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Meanwhile, my housemate tells me that KDE 2.0 with nice, working, and
> very friendly applications is coming out in a ocuple weeks. The GNOME
> people should, perhaps recognize they're at risk of second system
> syndrome, I.E. fixing everything and shipping nothing. There IS
> competetion out there. Stuff that is ugly inside but usable WILL drive
> stuff that is nice inside but "usable real soon" out of the marketplace.
GNOME 1.4 will be a nice release. We're not calling it 2.0 because we
have reserved that version number for the new platform release. We may
also have a 1.6 release before then.
We're trying to release new user functionality often rather than
waiting for X set of features, and taking the time to get the big
development platform change (which we want to take the time to do
right). GNOME 1.4 is planned to have many large usability
improvements, including Nautilus replacing gmc.
Given this, I don't think your flame is on-target.
The last GNOME release (1.2) slipped the target date that wasactually
announced by about a month, and 1.0.50 came out pretty much on time. I
don't think this track record demonstrates inability to release.
If you follow the GNOME mailing lists there should be more info
available about the release roadmap soon.
Maciej Stachowiak,
GNOME 1.4 Co-Release Coordinator (who hopes that people aren't too suck on the number "2.0")
