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

From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 09:42:54 EDT

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    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.

    Hub


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