Re: [Mldonkey-users] Development?

[Denis Fortin]

Quoting Brett Dikeman <address@hidden>:

> 
> > That's quite true, there are plans for a new version, but mldonkey
> > (b8_bavard on IRC) is away until 3 sept, and Simon (the one from
> > Changelog) is in family atm ;-) Nevertheless there are plans for a new
> > release (including a new gui). There are some people out there testing
> > this new version already (including me). So it has reached some kind of
> > stable-state, yet i don't know wether it will be released in the
> > devel-branch or as new stable.
> 
> It would be -incredibly- foolish to release directly to "stable" without
> proper release procedures involving substantial testing from the user
> community.  Ie, you're testing alpha now- move to beta, then to release
> candidate.  Of course, this also means you're going to have to actually work
> to fix the bugs that are discovered- instead of constantly adding mostly
> useless shiny things.  It does not matter how nice a car looks if you can
> only
> get into it from the sunroof.
> 
> Until you guys start taking releases seriously, everyone's going to view
> your
> releases, and hence the mldonkey project in general, for what it always is-
> unstable, bug-riddled, with major missing functionality problems.
> 
> The haphazard releasing of new versions has caused numerous problems in the
> past, and users have expressed incredible frustration at both quality of
> releases and versioning schemes.

What's the point of all this bashing???
There's only one active developper in the core team. I can understand that he
prefer to add new features than fix bugs, it' s a lot more fun.
If you can't live with that, fix the bugs you encounter or shut up.