[ros-dev] New Release - how're you feeling?

[Alex Ionescu]

Robert k. wrote:

>Hi,
>let's put it this way: I have no problem in doing an intermediate release.
>NEither idealistic nor by work. For my unterstanding, releases are time
>driven, not feature driven.
>So you're currently not feeling good for having a release build?
>I asked for a release one month ago, but I have to admit, not inbetween,
>anymore.
>So if not more people are worrying, I think we should have a try ???
>
>  
>
I still have a problem with a 0.2.7 release, especially as Filip and I 
are in the middle of changing the whole header system, which probably 
will add a couple of regressions, and still needs to be tested. I also 
have a problem because nothing has changed on the networking stage 
yet...I was hoping to have time to merge in my new Winsock DLLs... the 
reason I haven't yet is because Filip started working on the headers, 
and I couldn't be left out in the dust, and he needed my help with the 
NDK. Additionally, we still don't have anything new for the user. People 
are getting TIRED and they YAWN when they see another ReactOS release. 
Our changelogs are usually nothing more then "fixed bug X in function X, 
made function Y faster"... real users don't see any benefits. Look at 
0.2.6, they only thing they noticed is that it sucked more then 0.2.5, 
because we didn't test it adequately. Users know how to wait for 
something; right now we've made them wait a long time for this new 
ReactOS released and promised them amazing things.. and what are we 
going to deliver? Some bugfixes they won't understand? This will just 
dilute the ReactOS releases and make them seem as meaningful as the 
Colored Terrorist Alert in the USA.

I think instead, what should be done is to finally get around to 
CHANGING OUR HOMEPAGE which is OUTDATED and confuses users with 
INCORRECT DATA. I'm sorry to rant about this again, but what is taking 
so long? I also logged in to our SF homepage and it's in a dire state. I 
don't think there is even any link to our main homepage. And more 
importantly, we really need to add a link to Nighlty Builds, so people 
that really want the latest can try it out. Do you see Firefox releasing 
every 3 months? Linux? No, they release when there is something to show 
(or a critical security issue).

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu