On 20.02.2010, at 23:58, Chris Muller wrote:
> 
>> This is part two of two about upcoming releases. Besides the 4.0 release we
>> need to get ready for a release from the trunk. If you look at rather long
>> list of improvements this is a good time to get a release out.
> 
> Yes, but there are still some basic things we should try to fix
> shouldn't we?  For example, it's hard to imagine putting out something
> called anything other than "alpha" with the TextEditor home / end keys
> are not working properly.  Things like this are too low-level to allow
> into a final release because people have a connection to software
> through their mouse, keyboard, and have expectations for certain keys
> to behave in the normal ways.
> 
> If it were the backspace key, I'm sure we wouldn't release.  To me the
> home and end keys are right up there..

One of the jobs of the release manager would be to determine which of the bugs are blockers for the release. They could be tagged on Mantis, maybe create a report showing all of them, and then we can work steadily towards fixing those issues.

- Bert -