note by Christine Lemmer-Webber

Christine Lemmer-Webber at 2015-08-11T22:44:03Z

Reminder: if you say you're "waiting to release something as FOSS till it's ready", you're doing. it. wrong.

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@cwebber@identi.ca but no one wants to use undocumented, untested code?

Diane Trout at 2015-08-12T03:30:34Z

So document early, test early, release early, document often, test often, release often.

Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2015-08-12T07:33:54Z

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@diane@pump.ghic.org it depends on the software: if it is a library I wouldn't use it (except maybe for playing around), but for applications something new may be interesting and worth trying, expecially if upstream is responsive to suggestions for things that don't work yet.

Elena ``of Valhalla'' at 2015-08-12T09:39:51Z

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Ok, but you should state very clearly that that thing you're releasing is not meant for production and *especially* not try to bribe people into thinking it may be stable somehow...

(Remember GNOME 3.0, KDE Plasma 4.0 and now the current versions of KDE Plasma 5.x?)

Eugenio M. Vigo at 2015-08-12T22:51:46Z