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Subject: Re: 3.0 release announcement

Re: 3.0 release announcement

From: Paul Louden <paulthenerd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 11:56:21 -0500

Honestly, for the H140, I think it's reasonable for release once a few of
the more normal-case playback bugs are resolved. I do somewhat feel that the
H300 should be stricken from the release if the power drain issue isn't
resolved, as that will definitely shine a very negative light on things.

On 5/15/06, Bluechip <csbluechip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> At 12:13 15/05/2006, you wrote:
> >On Mon, 15 May 2006 13:05:21 +0200 (CEST)
> >Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_rockbox.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 15 May 2006, Paul van der Heu wrote:
> >[...skipped...]
> > > bugs are fixed after 3.0 but before 3.1 hits the road.
> > >
> > > And all these are my personal opinions of course.
> >I totally agree! :)
> >
> >--
>
> So v3.0 will be released with "annoying" bugs ...deliberately.
> If the bugs cannot be fixed within 4, 8 or 16 weeks
> ...what is to say they can be fixed be by v3.0, 3.1 or 3.2?
>
> I know my vote will count for absolutely nothing...
> but I vote ...do NOT deliberately release broken firmware as a
> land-mark version.
> It could be quite crippling if it got slash-dotted or some other
> publicity.
>
> As for people installing "annoying" "buggy" firmware - well I suppose
> that's just their own lookout.
> I guess that there will be a big banner on the Firmware saying "This
> is release is known to contain annoying bugs" ...or will we keep
> quiet about that and just pray nobody notices?
>
> BC
>
>
Received on 2006-05-15

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