Release dates/nomenclature

[Allen Winter]

On Sunday 02 September 2007 4:44:25 pm Helio Chissini de Castro wrote:
> On Sunday 02 September 2007, Allen Winter wrote:
> > On Saturday 01 September 2007 6:55:57 pm Matt Rogers wrote:
> > > On Sep 1, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Allen Winter wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 01 September 2007 11:45:07 am Thomas Zander wrote:
> > > >> On Saturday 01 September 2007 17:30:34 Matt Rogers wrote:
> > > >>> That's no different than what we have now. The problem is that
> > > >>> people
> > > >>> seem to be too interested in fixing Krazy issues rather than fixing
> > > >>> actual bugs. How do you propose we get them interested in fixing
> > > >>> real
> > > >>> bugs?
> > > >>
> > > >> Stop running the not-so-interresting krazy tests? ;)
> > > >
> > > > We can pull the plug on the EBN entirely.
> > > > I don't think that will help get bugs fixed, but at least
> > > > it will reduce the number unneeded re-compiles.
> > > >
> > > > I had no idea Krazy/EBN was doing such so harm to the project.
> > > > That was not the intention.
> > > >
> > > > -Allen
> > >
> > > I don't think it does that much harm to the project. In fact, I would
> > > consider the EBN a good thing. However, it may be a good idea to
> > > suspend it temporarily. Perhaps the number of recompiles caused by
> > > people not fixing krazy issues will allow some of us to be more
> > > productive. It may also spur some of the newer developers to work on
> > > other things besides fixing Krazy issues, which in the grand scheme
> > > of things, are less important the closer we get to a freeze. (IMHO)
> >
> > Ok, I turned the Krazy web site off.
> >
> > I can't really do anything about the command line tool
> > except tell folks not to use it.
> >
> > -Allen
> 
> Please, no.
> 
> I was planning to use it in a next week presentation in a major conference 
> here an one of the important things introduced during our evolution.
>  
> Despite this, turn off Krazy is just a way to make more people talking 
> about "what's  happening". 
> 
> Sorry, but by blaming Krazy for the fact that we're lack of resources or for 
> try force people to do something is almost the same to cut off the liberty of 
> developers decide by thenselves what they want to do.
> 
> Probably i'm not the first one to say that, but the current issues have 
> NOTHING TO DO with tools like krazy, but to lack of we do better management 
> of project and failing in to explain to out developers what we need to do 
> right now.
> 
> Seriously, shutting down krazy is more signal of weakness and confusion than a 
> really help to project. PLease, get it online again.
> 
There are several issues:
 1) people with limited experience trying to fix non-trivial stuff and making things worse
 2) people fixing trivial stuff which causes lots of extra recompiles
 3) people getting their hands in places they don't belong

All this causes slower development and unnecessary frustration, perhaps at the cost
of "quality"; but, maybe a .0 release isn't the time to be focusing on fine polishing.

I don't want to hurt the project.  Doctor, do no harm.

We can revisit the issue for the point-releases.

-Allen