On 20-Feb-09, at 10:29 PM, Planktonic wrote:

>
> Jeff Flowerday;395289 Wrote:
>> Has Squeezeplay development been temporarily put on hold?  Seems like
>> there hasn't been much progress with the reported bugs lately.
>
> Indeed, development for desktop Squeezeplay for the desktop is  
> "mostly"
> on hold at the moment.  However, from my non-authoritative vantage
> point, there is certainly commitment internally to getting SP Desktop
> to a non-beta state and continuing its development when resources
> become available.  But currently, the Squeezeplay/SqueezeOS resources
> are tied up.  I'm sorry to not be more helpful, but my hope is that a
> "No, but we plan too" message is better than no response at all.

At least now it comes from official resources.  The old third-party  
posting that promised there is "stuff" going on just gets claims of  
"bs".  Now that it's been very clear that there are paid, full-time  
resources involved for some time it means there are results at then  
end of the wait (whatever the reason for the wait).

Now, I have to say that tracking the "activity" of bugs is a bogus way  
to watch things.  A year or so ago, I was the most frequent single  
face on bugzilla simply because it wasn't seeing much else.  It was  
just organisation, based on having very little time to search.  Now  
that there are dedicated resources and a wider audience (arguably  
filing lamer bug reports) the activity falls more in line with  
prioritising and based on effort of the now rather large internal  
group of developers (working full-time and far faster than third-party  
folks can keep up with).

Sadly, while this does mean that voices, complaints etc are more  
readily heard and acted upon, it also means that the feedback loop is  
wider and the consideration of a wider audience delays actions.

Those who have posted about wanting a mainstream market acceptance,  
welcome to the brave new world.  It's nice to see the success, sad to  
see the expected door closure for those of us who have contributed to  
the core project.

-kdf

-kdf
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