[avahi] Release todo list.

Sebastien Estienne sebastien.estienne at gmail.com
Sat Aug 6 23:09:48 EST 2005


2005/8/6, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.de>:
> On Sat, 06.08.05 13:14, Sebastien Estienne (sebastien.estienne at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > About the version number, i think it should reflect the completness of
> > the features and the quality of the software.
> > That's why i'm not sure that we should set use 0.1.
> >
> > Developpers will have the choice between avahi and howl, and i don't
> > think the version number reflects the differences between both
> > software.
> >
> > That'w why i think we should release at 0.8/0.9 to mean that it's
> > beta/RC and need wider testing to fix remaining bugs and hit 1.0.
> >
> > What's your opinion?
> 
> Modesty is an exclusive trait.
Version number is not about modesty, i think it's about reflecting the
status of a project (IMO).
And using 0.8 is still "modest" as it is < 1.0 :)

> 
> > Maybe we could fix a release date betwwen mid august and mid
> > september?
> 
> What about releasing it when it is ready? ;-)
Sure! Imo, it is almost ready.

> 
> Honestly, we'd be well advised if we'd already release a version
> 0.1. Though its's a bit late to start with "Release early, release
> often". ;-)
> 
> The only missing (code) part ist the C client library which I don't
> consider essential. Therefore I'd vote for releasing 0.1 this weekend
> without libavahi-client. Lathiat, what's the current status of your
> work on that library? I haven't seen you on either IRC nor ICQ in a
> long time.
> 
Is Wide-Area support on the todo for... 0.2 ?

> I will write up some simple manpages using xmltoman.
> 
> Lennart
> 
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