[openbeos] Re: More talk on approach to R1 [desperately trying to change from Re: Tracker icons]
- From: "Simon Taylor" <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:55:25 +0100 BST
> "Simon Taylor" <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Something I suggested a couple of years ago (in a private mail I
> > think), was that R1 is not really the best name for the first
> > release
> > of Haiku we're currently heading towards. It is not where we want
> > to
> > be
> > by any stretch of the imagination, yet the phrase "R1" has certain
> > contations of completion about it to my mind. Somethnig like R0.5
> > would
> > maybe be seen as insulting to all the developers after the amount
> > of
> > work they put in however. Maybe abandon the R thing altogether.
>
> The R thing just means "release", nothing more, nothing less.
> It will be our first release, and hence the name :-)
It's not the meaning I'm concerned about, but what it implies about the
release.
> > How about something like "Haiku Preview Release (codenamed Walter
> > :D)"?
> > Interested people will find out more, try it, develop apps or
> > whatever,
> > but joe user would be put off. Interested people would instantly
> > know
> > that it is not a product we're particularly happy with as a
> > finished
> > OS, but would see enough positives to keep them intererested.
>
> If your Joe user would have been interested in BeOS 5 years ago, he
> won't be disappointed with what we have to show.
True.
> But the average Joe user won't look at Haiku R1 nor Haiku R2, I'd
> guess
> - unless it's a relative of one of our brave users or developers, of
> course :-))
I don't think you should discount this happening - the release will
certainly get slashdotted, which while not reaching the average Joe
user will still lead to interest from people who perhaps haven't used
BeOS before.
Exactly the same release will lead to quite different reactions from
those outside the project if it is "PR" rather than "R1" IMHO. Using a
"PR" will encourage people to look for potential (where we would score
very highly), using an "R1" could well lead to an expectation of
completeness, and encourage users to complare Haiku feature-for-feature
with other systems and then disregard it.
I agree it might be a good idea to keep R1 under the radar somewhat,
but reaction to it is still going to be important for the future of
Haiku. If such a simple thing as the name could change people's
attidudes to the whole project then I do think it should be considered.
Simon
> Bye,
> Axel.
>
>
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