making a polished release (Re: when hoary final will be released?

[Philippe Landau]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:55:00AM +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
>>Yeah but that's just a 6 month old planning ! Right now there are many
>>little things that could benefit 3 more weeks of development, so why
>>release a "rough" version, when 3 more weeks of work (until late april),
>>could possibly sort some little things out.... is it all for the sake of
>>sticking to this planning ?? God, that's scary :o(((
> 
> Yes, it was planned six months in advance, just as the work to be done was
> planned in advance.
> 
> Hoary is quite solid, and we intend to produce a high-quality release by the
> end of this week.  I wouldn't characterize it as "rough" at all.
> 
> Drastically changing our release plans at the last minute, for any reason,
> rather defeats the purpose of a time-based release schedule.
> 
> In short: Don't Panic, everything is OK.
how many bugs are still unresolved,
how many of those are you planning to resolve in the last two days now
and is there a risk that bugs solved in the last minute
cause new bugs that will plague other users ?

kind regards     philippe