Oh I am incredibly aware. 20 years in IT architecture and development. I didn't say I don't like the work. I said the work is out of date. And it is. It hasn't been updated since 2018 and anytime it's loaded on current Android OS, there's an immediate warning that it's out of date. There's a plethora of errors being reported because it's out of date.
None of these things though, mean or state that I don't like it. Nowhere did I write that I don't like it. What I said was it hasn't been updated and given how far out-of-date it is, and how long it's been since an update, it's a reasonable question to wonder if the package maintainer has the bandwidth to do it. And that only means that the facts bear out that there's probably an issue. Nothing more. I am in no way knowledgeable about the maintainer. S/he may be one of the most skilled people in the world but, absent the bandwidth. But it IS very out of date and it is throwing errors because of it. It is out of date to the point to where you can't open it without being warned every time that it is out of date. If you've been working on a new release for the last year-and-a-half, that's great. And, thank you. But, the current release is not being maintained. That is simply the fact. Making it personal is your choice. On Apr 12, 2020, 8:37 AM, at 8:37 AM, "Gonzalo Miranda [Alaskan Star Interactive]" <gonz...@alaskanstar.com> wrote: >If there was a way to upvote this response, I would. > >Gonzalo Miranda >http://www.alaskanstar.com/ > 305-673-8676 >gonz...@alaskanstar.com > >---------------------------------------- >From: cketti <cke...@gmail.com> >Sent: 4/12/20 11:12 AM >To: k-9-mail@googlegroups.com >Subject: Re: [k-9-mail] Re: Is K-9 dead? > >Hello Kendall, > >I'm not sure if you knew this. Telling someone you don't like the work >they do (but you presumably benefit from in some way) is usually not >going to motivate them to work harder. > >You also might have misunderstood the way this and many other open >source projects are run. It's not a democracy, you don't get to vote >who's in charge or needs replacing. It's much better. If you don't like >the way the app works or the project is run, you can fork it and >implement your own ideas. That's the great thing about free software. >There's no need to convince a majority to do it your way. > >Now, if you're not a developer this might not be an option. Maybe you >thought a change in leadership is your best bet to get an updated app. >You should have done some research. Currently I'm the only one actively >working on K-9 Mail. So your suggestion to replace the person in charge >is hard to implement. What's worse is that I'm currently writing this >response to your email instead of working on K-9 Mail. That means the >next stable version of K-9 Mail will be done just a little bit later >than it could have been. And that's thanks to your "contribution" to >the >project. > >I'm not very hopeful. But maybe this email will convince people that >voicing their opinion while not providing any constructive criticism is >wasting the time of everybody subscribed to this mailing list. You can >always use social media to inform your followers of your opinions. > >Best, >cketti >(K-9 Mail maintainer) > >On 12.04.20 03:37, Kendall Davis wrote: >> Despite what you keep posting, the honest answer seems to be yes, it >> is dead at present. I could care less about your beta group because >> until it's launched on the public Play store, it not released, and >> right now in the middle of April 2020, the version on the Play store >> is still from September 2018. So your attempted semantics aside, it >> is absolutely NOT BEING ACTIVELY UPDATED because it's not actively >> updated until it's posted on the Play store so users can update. >> Having it in a side group and only in beta is NOT released. >> >> Yes I am aware it's volunteers just like every OS project. But I'm >> also very aware that code this far out of date with no general >release >> available means that whomever's in charge of this project needs to be >> replaced immediately, Especially when they're trying to convince >> people it is being actively updated even though no updates are being >> pushed. > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "K-9 Mail" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >an email to k-9-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >To view this discussion on the web visit >https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/k-9-mail/80145240-bfb3-3d73-ee15-97267bdc43f9%40gmail.com. > > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "K-9 Mail" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >an email to k-9-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >To view this discussion on the web visit >https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/k-9-mail/565dde18dd3e48019bf54045e6e8a356%40alaskanstar.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to k-9-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/k-9-mail/32cdd1a0-c2c9-4047-af41-f2c5f277ac0d%40gmail.com.
