Re: Maybe we shouldn't spam the world with the 1.0 release announcement?

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 19:07:07 EDT

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    On Mon, 6 May 2002, Hubert Figuiere wrote:

    > On lun, 2002-05-06 at 14:48, Jesper Skov wrote:
    > > There's some truth to be found in Joel's text here:
    > >
    > > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/PickingShipDate.html
    > >
    > > 80% of those reading the announcement with download AbiWord, find that
    > > it doesn't have tables, and will never ever touch it again.
    > >
    > > I'm sure enough people, who are not judging a product by features they
    > > don't use anyway, will find and start using AbiWord 1.0, even without
    > > announcing it all over the place.
    >
    > I confirm that. I think I should agree with Jskov. Wait for 1.2 with
    > Table and other stuff to announce our product to the world.
    >
    > Announcing 1.0.1 on SF, freshmeat and other free-software oriented is
    > fine. Upload them to major software archives (even for Windows) is.
    >

    Hmm the original motivation for making a big noise at the 1.0 feature set
    point was to increase our user base by at least an order of magnitude.
    We're pretty well known in the Linux landscape but almost totally unknown
    to the Windows user base. We could certainly use more Windows developers.

    I'll read that article however and hold off on the spam until there is
    concensus.

    Cheers

    Martin

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