Re: [Ethereal-dev] 0.99.1 release anytime soon?

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Jeff Morriss wrote:
> [resending because my first attempt got lost to the DNS problem, I 
> think.]
>
> Ulf Lamping wrote:
> > Hi List!
> >
> > The current release is just buggy, at least the Win32 version!
> >
> > As we have some serious (and frequently/annoyingly reported) bugs in 
> > the 0.99.0 release it might be a very good idea to release a 0.99.1 
> > soon, even though we didn't had a lot of progress on the planned road 
> > map features. We might simply move the planned 0.99.1 features to 
> > 0.99.2 in the road map.
> >
> > To avoid such problems in the future, we might want to release a 
> > prerelease version some days (a week?) before the actual release is 
> > done.
>
> Hmmm, there was a prerelease for 0.99.0, though it wasn't sent to the
> -announce list (just -users and -dev).  (I remember because I submitted
> a patch against it.)  Do you think maybe we need a longer pre-release
> time or wider distribution?
No, I just didn't noticed that Gerald picked up a good tradition for the 
0.99.0 :-)

However, it wasn't in the announce list what (I'm pretty sure of) would 
have enabled us at least the problems we have with incoming reports of 
the same problems on a daily basis. Not to mention all the people 
thinking "What the f..." and don't sending any response as that's how 
the majority will react IMHO.

So the announcement of a prerelease *is* important (to spread bug 
reporting to a few more people) and to fix it before the actual release. 
A prerelease without announcing it is just useless and only additional 
work IMHO.

Regards, ULFL