[bogofilter-announce] new stable version - bogofilter 0.11.1.3

David Relson relson at osagesoftware.com
Mon Mar 17 16:05:25 CET 2003


At 09:34 AM 3/17/03, Carl T. Miller wrote:

>David Relson said:
> > At 08:57 AM 3/17/03, Carl T. Miller wrote:
> >>David, do you know when they're going to come up with a 1.0 version? One
> >>advantage of having a 1.0 version is that declares the basic
> >>feature set is determined, and, while minor features may be added, the
> >>current syntax will be supported until a new version comes out.
> >
> > Of course, there are many ideas for improvements and additional
> > capabilities.  The top two items in those categories are support for
> > multiple wordlists and more flexible handling of tokens in html tags and
> > comments.  When these are implemented they may be deemed important enough
> > to be 0.12 or 0.13.  Alternatively they may remain in the
> > "development/test" category until 1.0 is released (at which time they can
> > become 1.1 and 1.2).
>
>I'd like to encourage you to follow your alternate plan.  Namely, come
>up with a 1.0 version first, then add the new functionality.  (I won't
>mention how this reminds me of articles I've read about Linus implements
>version changes for the Linux kernel.)

Carl,

I'd phrase this as "Stick to the main road and get release 1.0 out.  There 
plenty of time, later, for enhancements."

Let's see how the user base responds to this :-)

David





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