[Marketing] Sugar 0.100 or 1.0

[Walter Bender]

Perfection is the enemy of the good.

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we need to decide if we want the next release to be 1.0 or 0.100.
>
> Here is the features we are planning for it.
>
> * Develop an HTML5 based toolkit for activities
>
> * Multiple selection in the Journal
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multi_selection
>
> * Enhanced support for 3G modems
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/3G_Support/Database_Support
>
> * Background customization
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Background_image_on_home_view
>
> * Multiple home views
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multiple_home_views
>
> * Integration with web services
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Web_services
>
> * Journal comments box
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Comment_box_in_journal_detail_view
>
> * Icon customization
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Icon_Change
>
>
> It's a bit of weird situation because code wise we are not really 1.0 ready.
> We are developing a new toolkit and the old one could use an API cleanup. On
> the other hand we are deployed to millions of users.
>
> Personally I don't really have a strong feeling. If the marketing team sees
> an opportunity in a 1.0 in October with the above feature list I'd say to go
> ahead with it even if from a developer point of view we are not ready.
> Otherwise we could delay it at least another cycle.

I think the marketing team had already reached consensus about 1.0.
But maybe Sean can chime in.


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Plus, I think .100 is confusing.

-walter

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