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Originally Posted by charleski
One thing I would suggest, since everyone seems to be rushing to advocate their favourite addition, is that you freeze the Sigil feature set at the 0.4.0 version and aim to squash the lingering bugs and get it as solid as possible.
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Some time ago I read an
article by
Joel Spolsky.
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Originally Posted by Joel Spolsky
With six years of experience running my own software company I can tell you that nothing we have ever done at Fog Creek has increased our revenue more than releasing a new version with more features. Nothing. The flow to our bottom line from new versions with new features is absolutely undeniable. It's like gravity. When we tried Google ads, when we implemented various affiliate schemes, or when an article about FogBugz appears in the press, we could barely see the effect on the bottom line. When a new version comes out with new features, we see a sudden, undeniable, substantial, and permanent increase in revenue.
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While Sigil is not a comercial product and increasing revenu is not the aim there is a clear lesson here. People want new features and people only care when there are new features. I want to have at least three major new features for each release. So far I've committed to spell check, a hyper link editor and I'm still trying to figure out number three.
Bug fixes will always be a priority and I plan to spend most of my time working on 0.5 fixing bugs. However, I don't want to put out a bug fix only release.