I'll be imprudent: What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of designers and

I'll be imprudent: What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake. http://gradha.sdf-eu.org/textos/klingon_programmer.en.html http://gradha.sdf-eu.org/textos/klingon_programmer.en.html Heh, this always gets me to laugh. I've been on both sides of this issue though: I worked at a place that shipped code and their version 3 release is shaping up to be what their 1.5 release should have been. But I can also get to the point of paranoia, "I can't release this! it still has bugs!" Maybe we just need to have a "release determination board" filled with 50% pessimists and 50% optimists. That way, you'd have a huge argument over when to release. To release is risk, but is risk itself imprudent? I doubt it.