[schooltool] Weekend Bugs

[Tom Hoffman]

The good news is that people around the world are trying out
SchoolTool right now. The bad news is that we know that from all the
bug reports that came in this weekend after Ignas updated some
packages on Friday afternoon.

The first lesson here for me is not to give Ignas the goal of putting
out a non-trivial update "by the end of the week," which tends to
result in late Friday releases followed by weekend bug reports. We'll
return to our previous practice of doing releases on Tuesday, which
gives us ample time to discuss the details in our Monday IRC meeting
and time to put out fires without ruining anyone's weekend.

Note that post-1.0 (April) we'll tighten this up further, but at this
point we want to push changes and fixes out quickly and let people
have a crack at them.

Finally, I'd just like to stress that if you're having a problem with
SchoolTool, don't bang your head against it for hours. If you are
having a problem, it is a bug, either a bug in programming, or user
interace design, or documentation. We need you to tell us what is
broken. You aren't inconveniencing us!

Thanks.

--Tom