5.0.3 release around First Week of April …
March 13th, 2007 by Richie
We had a team-meeting today and we have decided to wipe the trac clean with the issues that we have as of now by the end of this week.
We will go for another round of validation spanning the entire next week.
Then, we will take up the bug fixes based on the priority of the issue.
We will see how the cat jumps from then on.
You can assume that we are looking at releasing vtiger somewhere near the First Week of April or so.
So those who are making plans to move/migrate their businesses based on vtiger planning, target using vtiger from 2nd week of April or so.
Please note that while posting bugs, do be very specific if you are asking for a feature or for a fix. A fix is a bug-fix and a feature is something that is an add-on to what something already works like.
So, please be very specific in what you state and how you categorize. No doubt we will review what you post but still it is far better that you categorize the same yourself well.
We are working on providing a solid and bug-less product. The features can wait or you can pay us for getting them done separately or specifically for you. Let us not club all these together in the 5.0.3 release itself.
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It has been a painful step for doing the above but then it had to be done. There were so many tempting options to go with but I felt that to do justice to the product, we will require till April first week.
I will be keeping a further one week as buffer.
The worst case scenario, we will have April 2nd week as the release but then this is the worst case scenario.
Already, we are seeing the bugs getting dried up and the quality being more or less stable. The internationalization part is being handled with true vengeance!So that too is getting settled finally!
A lot of good things have happened in 5.0.3 and I hope that you all will appreciate that. The time taken is well spent and I hope that too is observed.
The team has put in a lot of effort and I realised that they too are eager to let go of 5.0.3 but then the product is almost 90% ready. It has to go the full distance and I know it is painful but it has to be done that way. If not now, then doing it later, will be only the more expensive.
Sometimes I feel I am being too liberal, sometimes I feel that this is needed and have to do it. Shit, sometimes, I confuse myself too but then something has to be done because that is the right thing to do confusion or not.
vtiger till now was doing the things right in the release handling part, now it is mandatory to do the Right Thing- let it be painful.
vtiger team,
You have a great product!
With the responsible position you have taken in making sure that the release of 5.0.3 is a success, I am confident that vtiger will take-off and be recognized as a fantastic product.
My company is using vtiger extensively already (albeit a subset of the features). With the stability that 5.0.3 promises, I can’t wait starting to use more of the features already implemented and can envision all the new cool stuff that potentially will become available from vtiger and other developers.
Salesforce.com and SugarCRM have so far gotten the brunt, if not all of press — however, when it becomes clear that there is stable and professional alternative, with more features, without cost, and with clear open source licensing — the tides will turn and I predict there will be huge success for vtiger and the vtiger team.
Anyhow, people might be wondering about my unsolicited positive outburst — I guess it is just my way of showing appreciation of the product and your efforts!
Keep up the good work!
Best regards
Christer Bengtsson
VP Sales & Marketing
Acumem AB
Sweden
PS! Yes — I have purchased support.
Courageous decision !
Be sure that half a month is not much to wait, as we will use it for monthes as it will be.
Happy to know that we can pay for new features, should we use the “bounty” forum for that (for large dev) ?
What about your prices (on a daily base, for example) ?
Thks,
RV.