On March 20, 2002 01:47 am, Michael Robertson wrote: [...]
they'll think it sucks. If however the public commitment is "this software is designed to run the following: MS Word Lotus Notes Quicken" and it actually works, you have a believer. You have someone who will get excited and will offer their help. You give momentum to Wine. You get program sponsors (those willing to oversee ongoing supervision/testing of programs. You get more people offering to be on documentation teams. And you get more developers.
This is well understood by most people, and this is what we call 09/1.0. That's why it is so important to nail the tasks left for 0.9. You see, 0.9 is not 'all chords', but rather 'a handful of notes' such that we start 'playing a few tunes well'.