Darren, I understood this post as a call for discussion and participation ;-). Take a positive attitude - isn't it better to provide information early before everything is fixed and hard to change (1.0). ;) Rainer > This is completely off topic but hopefully the mod will let > me rant a little bit about one of the more unprofessional > aspects of "open source software development"... > > > http://www.balabit.hu/downloads/eventlog/0.1/src/ > > Sigh, yet another software package we're being encouraged to > use that the author doesn't feel is upto at least 'version 1.' > > If you're going to make it public, call it version 1.0. > > I really hate the idea of using software that's "version 0.45.3". > > After a while you start to feel that you should just remove > the "0." at the front anyway. > > If 0.10 is just 10% of the final release then what's the > point of even advertising it yet ? Go away and come back > when it's all there (ie. you have a 1.0) > > Personally, there's nothing to say that 1.0 must be a > particular state but how do you have version 0's of anything > ? Does it even exist ? > > Darren > _______________________________________________ LogAnalysis mailing list LogAnalysisat_private http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/loganalysis
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