[haiku-development] Re: Voting aftermath

>
> While I would prefer a release date be set ( even a very late one ),
> it may not be a good idea as pointed out.

There are other options, like an opportunity window.
We say "let's try next week", and try not to break anything during this
week, and if everything is green we do it, else we just continue axing
stuff the next week.

> I am hoping that Alpha 1 can be out by Dec 30, 2008, or sooner,
> but if not, the world will still go on.

Would be nice for 18 oct for JDLL but I'm dreaming :D

> I believe a Code Freeze of Oct 1 would be a good idea so that focus
> can go towards working on Alpha release so that it can be done
> quicker.

Also, we'll have a coding week after BG...

> The Alpha release should attract devs, users, volunteers and/or
> donations.

Btw, Openmoko's FreeRunner is already selling despite not even being
able to reliably make a phone call ;)

> For Python, there were a few devs - bonefish, stippi, axeld, mmu_man,
> who did not vote, maybe because they were undecided?  I would say to
> skip
> Python for Alpha 1.  Better to be discussed for later releases if
> people
> believe it will be needed.

Yeah I wasn't sure what to think.
Unless we want mercurial in, I don't see any compelling reason to
include python though.

François.

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