[Pan-users] Re: Re: Re: 0.100 downloads marked as saved

[Duncan]

Charles Kerr <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Mon, 19 Jun 2006
18:26:33 -0500:

> There are a handful of must-have features left for 1.0, such as
> more charset choices and per-posting-profile extra headers.

I could sure use those per posting-profile custom headers.  You probably
saw the discussion with Beartooth... I actually /use/ those custom
headers! =8^)

> But IMO we're /nearly/ feature-complete, so I'm more focused right
> now on speed and stability than new features.
> 
> Duncan's guessed correctly that I think we'll hit 1.0 sooner
> than the end of the year.  The rate of bug reports is shrinking,
> so I'm not sure why he thinks we'll need 28 more betas... Duncan,
> are you waiting for me to implement some pet feature of yours? ;)

Just giving you plenty of room to maneuver, should it be needed. =8^) 
Just in case someone takes my (somewhat informed but still WAG) predictions
as gospel or something, it's a whole lot better saying by the end of the
year and hitting the end of July or August, than saying the end of July
and hitting the first week of January!  =8^)

Or to put it differently, I belong to the Engineer Scotty (RIP James
Doohan) school of engineering. Say it'll take four hours and have the team
called miracle workers when it gets done in one!  =8^)  (Yeah, you're the
one doing the work, but I guess I can call PAN "my" project too, after
these years.)

On bug reports shrinking... my observation as well, altho .99 seemed a bit
of a regression from .98 in a couple ways -- .100 fixed the issues and has
seemed the solidest so far, here.  I must admit, when I looked for them
and failed to find them, the feeling was a bit like that of reaching in
my pocket for my keys... and not having them! =8^(  I didn't use the rules
a lot, but where I used them, it was something I came to rely on, so
missing them leaves me feeling... well... slightly disoriented.  =8^( 
Unlike keys, tho, at least I know where I left them if I decide I need
them! =8^)

BTW, I tried looking for rules to do something with the scores, but that's
missing in >.90.  There has been some discussion of doing things that
require rules (and I was explaining how they worked <.90).  However, as
I've seen no hints from you on it, I'm guessing they won't be back
until after 1.0, correct?

> As for post-1.0... there will be a handful of 1.0.x releases to fix
> whatever bugs turn up by the larger testing base 1.0 will have.
> After that it just depends on what features are the most-requested.

So you are planning 1.0.x to be bugfixes on the 1.0 series, and 1.0.9x the
next beta series targeting the next stable as 1.1.0?  (In any case, a note
about (new) versioning policy on rebelbase might be in order.  Yeah, I
know, nag-nagging again!  =8^)

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