On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 01:56:48PM -0500, Bob Jamison wrote:
This was only completed at the last minute here, so use it, try to break it, etc. I hope that people find it useful.
This is an awesome feature, and it's great to see it getting in. One thought though -- since it's come in pretty late, and probably won't get sufficient testing/bug fixing prior to release, could you configure it as an experimental feature (i.e., add a preference item to turn it on with a clear warning that it's experimental, and have it off by default)? This way, users will still be able to access it, but if there are problems it won't generate a flurry of unnecessary bug reports and questions. We've had really good luck with this approach for other new experimental features in the past, so it'd probably be helpful here too.
(We've had a few people with questions/confusion on the irc channel, due to long processing times, etc. and some concern over stability due to how new it is, but we all thought it'd be better to have it listed as experimental than to have to leave it out of the release.)
Bryce