9 Feb
2021
9 Feb
'21
5:31 p.m.
Colin, I think he was just living up to his name!
On a more serious and on-topic note…
Releases for ReactOS are, at least at this point in time, much more a publicity and
advertising event, rather than an actual usable product. The fact that ReactOS is “deep
alpha” means that there shouldn’t be any real expectation that the software is in any
state usable, and if you’re planning to use it for any “real” work, frankly, you’re
stupid.
As such, I personally believe it’s much more important for publicity, and to keep the
project in the public eye, to release “something”. Understandably, many of the recently
touted features won’t be available in the 0.4.14 release, but adding a comment in the
release notes pointing to nightlies for the latest features isn’t beyond the realms of
possibility.
I can understand the idea of skipping the release, and i don’t think it’s particularly a
bad idea, if 0.4.15 would be branched simultaneously. As i said before, releases are good
for publicity, and it’s very important to have them to keep the project in the public eye.
Therefore if it is decided to skip 0.4.14, a 0.4.15 release should be fast-tracked in it’s
place.
Therefore, my uneducated and, frankly valueless opinion (given i’m not a dev), is to skip
0.4.14 and branch 0.4.15 almost immediately, or if that’s not feasible, release 0.4.14 as
soon as possible.
-Josh Rice