We’re getting there. Although I’m thinking in months, not in weeks. If you’re working on a feature for Tinymail and you want it in its first release: you better start hurrying up.
It’s becoming a product that just works. A lot of the release work will be low hanging fruit like getting gtk-doc in perfect shape, making sure ‘make distcheck’ does the right thing, killing a few more major defects and writing some more documentation.
When those items are finished, the project can be delivered as a product. Above all, it must earn the status “product”. That’s the point where I’ll release a first version.
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