Comment 63 for bug 328575

On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 17:44 +0000, bjd wrote:
> Been following these comments -- all the while finding myself more and more
> dumbfounded. This bug is over two months old.

More and more bugs lately seem to befall this fate sadly, of just
lingering on and on and nothing being done.

> There's another bug there: how could a much anticipated release make it out the
> door, even with this fundamental breakage already having been reported?

Because "it was time". Sadly, in this day and age, releases are made
based on squares on a calendar, not on suitability of release. To be
sure, much work is put into trying to make the release stable by the
time that square on the calendar comes up but it doesn't always happen.
The square comes and the release has to be made.

While this does not seem to have been a problem in the past, the past
couple of releases of both Ubuntu and evolution seem to have fallen
victim to "it's time" and not "it's ready". Hopefully this changes in
that the release date is allowed to slip or more hands are put into
getting it ready by that release date or less ambitious are set for
releases.

It's one of those old "pick two" songs. In this case the three choices
are "on time", "feature packed", "stable". Pick two.

b.