I think that you should get your priorities straight first, David. You released a BOINC 7.8 onto the community and don't do anything about aftercare, documentation, or release notes/version history.
What I dislike the most about this new setup is that you go ahead with releasing a version, despite there being two or three people with objections about it, and that when the community comes to the forums with the problems, that that same community can go and figure out what is wrong and how to fix that. There have been plenty of reports now about major bugs in this client, or omissions of code, or omissions of fixes, severe problems with VirtualBox. What happens to some users out there is that they lose their complete data directory before they can continue with a previous version. That means that we released an Alpha version, because only on Alpha's do we expect that things can go so bad that you can lose all your work. In my opinion, the Release Manager has some more responsibility than just throwing a new version onto the community: when there are problems out in the world that you try to debug them with the community and where necessary build a new version that fixes most of those problems; debug, fix, release, debug, fix, release; until everything is somewhat stable again. Or if that's too much work, officially remove the buggy version and go back to the previous stable. You don't just ignore the problems in the field, leave that to the community to debug and meanwhilst go test a new version. Because when you do it like that, the community will quickly quit trying to do anything with this program again, because their complaints about it go unheard and it's becoming unworkable. Meanwhilst, the helpers on the forums get the brunt of your way of doing things, they get yelled at when it doesn't work, they get pointed at as 'those cannot help me'. So, please, work with us instead of against us, let's try to be one community instead of the several. Really let's try to get 7.8 fixed first, or go back to 7.6, but don't just blunder on and go test a new version when the old version is wreaking havoc out there. -- Jord van der Elst. On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 11:47 PM, David Anderson <da...@ssl.berkeley.edu> wrote: > Master has a number of improvements relative to 7.8.2, > so I'd like to make a release branch and start testing soon. > > Is there any work in progress that I should wait for? > > Thanks -- David > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu > https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
