Martin Spott wrote:

<RANT>We know exactly this phenomenon for several years now and to my
observation very little changed in the meantime. The biggest success
was to install a consensus that the pre-release phase should last at
least two weeks. To my opinon two _months_ would be appropriate for
such a complex piece of software that runs on so many different
platforms and is maintained by such a small developer base.
Unfortunately I didn't manage to crowd a significant number of
supporters for this idea.</RANT>

Guess why the next release is 0.9.9 and not 1.0 and why 1.0 is released early next year?

Actually there were times when I got on everyones nerves by
continuously pointing at bugs or inconsistencies that I was unable to
fix myself. Finally I realized that only reporting or documenting bugs
(whereas the latter is a _really_ time-consuming task !!) without
providing a fix was not that much welcome and I decided to engage with
my own sub-projects that I am capable of running without external help.

Well, pointing to bugs might be useful when there are enough developers to fix them. It is just recently that we have enough developers who are willing to fix bugs.

Erik

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