FreeLists / haiku-development / [haiku-development] Re: Haiku alpha 1 release (draft)

[Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>]

Simon Taylor wrote (2008-02-04, 09:59:53 [+0100]):
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> So again I think we need to better define who the alpha is for and what 
> we expect them to do with it.

We should do it for ourselves. If we are excited by it, then there will be 
more people with the same feeling. I was under the impression that the 
self-hosting thing is already the common opinion among the developers. (I 
might be wrong.) We should try to appeal to developers who can appreciate 
what Haiku is trying to become eventually. Everyone who is believing in 
this strongly enough is probably already contributing. We need to convince 
the rest and reassure ourselves, that we can actually pull it off. And for 
that we need to reach a milestone like self-hosting. Let's not even try to 
grow the community in huge leaps. If all the alpha gains is reassurance for 
ourselves and a few more developers, then it will already be a success. 
Haiku is really lacking in end-user features compared to for example 
Ubuntu. It cannot even burn CDs from within Tracker yet. So I don't think 
we should even try to impress from an enduser perspective.

Best regards,
-Stephan