[sldev] 1.23.4 released in a hurry ?

[Latif Khalifa]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Brad Kittenbrink (Brad
Linden)<brad at lindenlab.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand what your complaint is.  There's nothing
> blocking 1.22 viewers from logging in.  Our policy for deprecating older
> viewers is described here:
> https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/technology/blog/2009/03/09/supported-viewer-versions
>
> Quite frankly if you're looking for "Some kind of clue" that a new
> viewer is going to be released, then IMHO you should treat our release
> of RC0 as that clue.  We've been bad in previous releases by calling
> things that weren't even close to releasable quality "RC" viewers, but
> the 1.23 RC process is what we've been aiming for ever since we started
> doing Release Candidates.  We're sorry if you've gotten used to us
> sucking, but this is one case where I'm glad to disappoint you. ;)

It really takes a brave man to claim 1.23RC4 and now production 1.24.4
"releasable quality". Is that why comments were closed after a few
dozen or so on the blog post announcing the new viewer?