Freetype changes

Scott James Remnant scott at ubuntu.com
Thu Sep 20 18:20:31 BST 2007


On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 18:09 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 05:55:44PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> 
> > I maintain my argument that Beta time is the best time to trial visual
> > changes like this, since it's the first release which gets wide-spread
> > testing.
> 
> Imagine the case where a significant body of developers find the change 
> unhelpful, but the average user likes it. If we revert, it's bad PR. If 
> we don't revert, we risk alienating an important section of our users. 
> Doing it at the start of a cycle means that we have enough time to 
> ensure that the developers are happy, without risking upsetting our main 
> userbase. 
> 
We have the same problem at whatever point in the cycle we revert, if we
have to.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at ubuntu.com
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