I can see the point that has been mentioned of 'get it out there and the community will give you feedback', but IT IS out there, and people do expect to use it.... and DO use it. MNSHO is that somebody who wants to put buggy, featureless stuff out there should either go to work in Redmond or should add their work to the Acme:: subtree. Maybe if we create a FUBAR::RealTree::foobar tree for sub-1.0 modules, that would be the right way to get them out there for feedback and improvement but keep them from falling into the hands of the unwary who expect them to actually work.
There probably IS a happy medium, and I'm sure most authors worth paying attention to do strive to make their stuff at least perform its feature set correctly. I have found this to be the case with modules and programs I've used, for the most part, and I certainly think the open source release-and-act-on-feedback-model is a huge improvement over "We'll fix it in 5.0". | [reply] |