Well, whatever the release dates, I hope you guys take your time and polish Wedge. I really want this to succeed and be the best bulletin software.
| 1. | and what to do? have to wait ........... |
Oh, I'm having fun with 'em, don't worry.
Used to have fun with my AeMe release schedule, too...
Jesus Christ, this is why I never, ever, ever give out deadlines. Now we're going to have posts every other week asking when something will be released.
| 1. | ones' asking are we there yet! |
Okay, if you want a release schedule...
Two things to remember:
- This is MY own, personal, release schedule. I'm a big boy and I can set my own goals aside from Pete's. However, if Pete's work on Wedge is NOT finished, then it will be postponed. Same on my side, obviously.
- The dates are tentative. I'm not promising anything anyway. Just consider them as milestones that I set for myself as a goal in order to get myself back to work. I need concrete time frames to get to work. For instance, I originally worked on Wedge with the intent of releasing it on the week SMF2 came out -- but they took so long to actually do that, that we both decided to just go ahead and add more features that would originally have been in Wedge 2.0. As a result, we slipped past their own release date. Which doesn't bother me, really. As long as I have a schedule, I don't care about the release date.
So... In order of tentative release:
- Screenshots -- hopefully before the end of the month. I'm only waiting to get a relatively stable version of my new font overhaul...
- Demo site -- hopefully in July. We will release this when we consider the visual aspects are good enough and need a wider use to determine bugs to fix.
- Private alpha for our friends -- hopefully in August. September at the latest. Will depend on whether we can finish our current features on time.
- Public alpha for everyone (v0.1-0.5?) -- A week or two after that. During the alpha development, we may still add more 'big' features that were either forgotten/postponed from the early feature list (the one that's public now, see?), or simply that we came up with during the alpha.
- Public beta for everyone (v0.6-0.9?) -- Depends on the state of the alpha version. Hopefully before the end of the year. At this point we're not going to 'feature-freeze' Wedge, but we won't add any more 'big' features.
- Public gold release (v1.0) -- Depends on the state of the beta version. Hopefully before the end of the year. 2011. We don't really have a 'set' date for the gold release if only because our plan is to enable anyone running the beta to be able to update without any work on their side. So, basically, what you should be looking forward to is a beta release.
In the SMF terminology, I guess their 'betas' are our 'alphas'.
I can't conceive a beta without a prior alpha. Bêta in French means "silly". So it sounds silly to me :P
Next week! Hit me if I don't!
For you it's fun because you just got your driving license.
Wait till you are older and you have 4 kids in the back seat asking every 2 seconds "Are we there yet?" :niark:
I appreciate that people are excited. I appreciate that people want to see what we've done. But keep telling us this... that's not encouraging. There is one person in particular who has really, really pissed me off with this. It was said today that we *hope* to get a really usable version out by Christmas, which is cool. Said person simply commented to the effect of 'is it new year yet?'
| 1. | you can easily put and use, and I will have more to do the translation into Russian |
He just said Russia...
The specificity of the region of residence. (an example is Canada. There are also two languages)