Re: Release date

[Thierry Kormann <Th...@sophia.inria.fr>]

Hello,

> I just talked with PR people and they pointed out that the week of
> November 12th is the week of COMDEX which is not too good to get good
> press attention. The following week is Thanks Giving in the US.
> Therefore, Susy Struble (the Sun PR person) suggests we postpone the
> release until Dec. 4th. This is the week of XML 2000 in Washington.
> 
> Another reason for pushing the date is that Stefano just said he could
> not help us as much as we had planned and it will likely make it longer
> to get everything setup on the Apache site, so I feel more comfortable
> with that date.
> 
> Please reply to this email if you agree or disagree with moving the 
> release date from the week of November 12 to the week of Dec. 4.

In my opinion, Dec. 4 sounds better. Another argument to postpone the release 
is that batik is really *not* user-friendly at the moment and 3 additional 
weeks are not too much to improve the accessibility and the error handling in 
the various tools.

I agree with moving the release date.

Thierry.

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