Re: Interesting

[Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu>]

In message <19990105173134.54332@pluto.ashtech.net>, syntax@ashtech.net writes:
>On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 06:02:58PM -0500, Jason Pincin wrote:
>> to do a public release until the product is usable.
>
>Perhaps, but it is not common in free software development as I have noticed,
>releasing as soon as a reasonably sized codebase has been reached seems to be
>common.  The announcement before it is released at all bothered me more than 
>this.  As if they had some competition they were worried about.  

Check out the Linux Press Release project, at
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~conradp/linux/pr/

Conrad presents some good arguments for doing press releases before the final
system is ready. Of course, this doesn't always apply, but it applies more
often than people realize.

--Roger