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On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 17:36 +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Scribit Ian Eslick dies 03/04/2007 hora 09:28:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> moving towards a 1.0 release in the near future. Therefore the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> current CVS (0.6.1 beta) will shortly become 0.9rc1.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Why use such a confusing numbering? There's no need for a 0.9 before</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">1.0, so you could as well have some "road-to-1.0" branch receive bug</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">fixes for stability and performance, and then release out of it a series</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">of RC: 1.0rc1, 1.0rc2, etc.</FONT>
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I'm pleased that you think Elephant is ready for a 1.0 release, but unfortunately Ian and I disagree. Ian and I have a number of small features that we think are needed to be "1.0 complete", not lease of which is an off-line garbage collection, and the integration of the "postmodern" backend.<BR>
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My impression is that within the open-source community (unlike, for example, Microsoft), the number "0.9" means "Almost ready for primetime but not fully documented and may require tweaks." whereas "1.0" means "We've had this thing used by hundreds of people and it is so stable that we don't plan to change it right away".<BR>
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I think it is best that we try to follow standard procedures, even if those standards are quite nebulous, for the sake of the users.<BR>
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Of course, this may be a tempest in a teapot --- except for the users who post on this list (to whom I would like to repeat: THANK YOU!) I have no idea if the number of users is in the 10s or 100s---but I know we won't get 1000s unless we plan for it, and that means using the most professional processes that we can.<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> OpenMCL:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> We're still looking for OpenMCL testers for versions 1.0 and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> especially 64-bit 1.1.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I seem to remember that OpenMCL has been ported to Linux for AMD64, so</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I'll take a look at it and see if I can run the test suites for it.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Quickly,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Pierre</FONT>
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