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

[Charles Kerr]

Duncan wrote:

> there's a /very/ dated roadmap on the rebelbase
> site.  I saw Charles was cleaning out the old Bugzilla bugs the other day,
> maybe he'll get around to updating the roadmap soon too, and I'll have
> something official to go on, instead of piecing a bit of a comment here
> and a bit of a comment there together, and reading between the lines.  =8^\

Nag, nag, nag, nag, NAG!  :)

> As I said, Charles /has/ stated that there won't be many new features
> until after 1.0. I have /inferred/ from various hints that he intends to
> make 1.0 the next stable release, and to have it out by the end of the
> year (I'm guessing he'd like it sooner, say August/Sept, but am saying EOY
> as I think that's a safer bet, given I'm not sure).  Thus, unlike back
> with 0.14.x, when "post 1.0" was really equivalent to "bluesky", that is,
> "it'd be nice, but there's no telling if or when", post 1.0 actually
> isn't that far away now that 1.0 should be the next stable release.

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

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? ;)

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.

cheers,
Charles