Re: IMPORTANT - READ IT

At 4:32 PM -0600 3/16/04, alan runyan wrote:
>but I dont understand what could have possibly changed between the 
>previous version of the tarball
>and the latest tarball.

In that case, we'll just go with what we had in the tarball.

However, I always error on the side of caution.

Whatever set people have been testing, I'd prefer to stay with that 
set and make the installer around that.

If something changes after testing, I think it should be held off for 
the next version.

>>However, it's frustrating when a tarball is released... we wait a 
>>few days for things to shake out... we then spend the time doing 
>>the installer... we spend time doing a sanity test on the target 
>>platform... and then look to release....
>
>and BAM! and a change comes along - what may/may not be a significant change.

Well, it gets down to change/configuration management.

I role I'm glad Andy has volunteered for.

I think moving forward, many of the goals I know we all share will be 
able to be accomplished with someone watching over this important 
task.

>I am up for you guys releasing the Mac installer.  There really is 
>not much of a difference.  Use the ones from
>the old tarball.  We have had inconsistency before.  I think the 
>important part is to get something released.

Yep.

And we're ready to go.

>There are bugs.  We need to inventory them and get another release out, 2.0.1.

Sounds fair.

>Make a release as is - I am not against that.  We need to get people 
>testing.  Need to get an announcement.
>Need to get closer to closing out the bugs we find.

Yep!

I've got potential customers who have held me off because 2.0 was not 
released... and they've seen it as a potential release since 
October... so it's made them nervous.

Putting a line in the sand and saying 2.0 is out.... no.... seriously...

;)

Will go a long way for people who have said they are waiting for 2.0!

I also have training coming up end of April.

I think with the release of 2.0... and a professional training date 
in the US end of April, we can try to generate some news about Plone 
in the Mac community.

I plan making the usual noise about Plone on the Mac media web 
sites... and perhaps even buying targeted advertising (not just our 
usual Google advertising).

This can all be a good thing to bring more awareness about Plone.

So... to recap... we want 2.0 released!!!

:)

mark

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