r/ex/w experiments

[Peter Dobcsanyi]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:33:08PM +0100, Leonard Soicher wrote:
> Peter Cameron wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:18:06AM +0100, Peter Dobcsanyi wrote:
> >> 1)
> >> 
> >> We should not rush the publication. It seems we can meet the deadline
> >> with the ext-rep doc, but now, I feel we need a few weeks "cooling off"
> >> period before publishing. Say a publication around the first week of
> >> September would be a reasonable target. 
> >
> >For the record, I will be at a workshop in Tehran next week. There are
> >lots of design theorists there, and I want to tell them about what
> >we are doing. Even if the specifitation is not released, I hope you don't
> >mind if I talk about parts of it.
> >
> 
> Not at all. 
> 
> Indeed, we should keep up the project's momentum by finishing a *beta*
> release (for testers) of the rnc and its documentation by the end of
> this week.  You could then take copies of this to the Workshop and
> encourage those interested to sign up to one or both of our mailing
> lists.

Total agreement with this from my part too.

To be clear on this "cooling off" period, what I meant was to finish the
documentation by the end of this week as planned but not releasing it
before September.

We can and should give the documentation to volunteering beta testers
during this period on the condition that they join (and contribute :-)
to the developers mailing list. This type of release scheduling is
standard practice in open source development and proved to be a very
useful method.

--             ,
    Peter Dobcsanyi