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[Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>]

Hello all,

Are you wondering where the promised 0.3.1 is?  Hmmm, so am I.  Well
as you may have suspected I've been off in the real world of working
on my barn and dealing with a garden that suddenly came from near
death by drought into stuff rotting on the plants because I can't keep
up... not to mention this community building stuff that seems to take
a lot of time but doesn't result in anything.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure that even the end of Sept. is an unrealistic
expectation for a 1.0 so lets rethink it and examine the consequences.
I'd like to suggest that we now aim for the end of the year as our 1.0
goal if this would be acceptable to all of us, Threshold, and
Scott/PCI.  

How about this as a timeline:

Now till Nov. 1st: Very relaxed development unless we get really
  inspired, but no expectation of getting much done other than
  incremental improvements.  In particular I'm interested in making
  the interface more friendly/intuitive/cleanera if folks can suggest
  how.  I'll also fix any bugs and implement the remaining small
  things on my 0.3.1 todo list.

  Also, it would be good to let Threshold know that we are doing good
  things, point out dev and that we will have a final report and a 1.0
  release available in 2006.

Nov. 1st - Nov. 14th: 0.4.0 relationships and GBI

Nov. 15th - Dec. 1st:  Late breaking features, possibly fun stuff like
images and moderation (off the clock).

December: Feature freeze, final testing, cleanup, roll out.

Jan. 1, 2006: PIW 1.0

Waddya thank?


Cheers,
Chad

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Chad Knepp
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