I don't know what Curt uses as a metric for deciding if a new release
should happen, but the time delay between the current 'stable' and the
previous one was about two years - too long I'm sure.
v0.9.10 was released in April. We have long since abandoned the even/stable odd/devel release approach. 0.8.x is long forgotten and really was never supported beyond a couple fixes people back patched into it early in it's existence.
Just to make it clear to everyone. Right now I am struggling with a couple critical dead lines at work. The pressure is on me for my day job, and I'm screwing my schedule and deadlines right now by just taking the time to reply to this message. But, it's seems like for pretty much this entire year, the pressure at my day job never lets off, so I have to take a breather once in a while even if it provokes my bosses to scream at me even louder.
So combine that with a wife, 2 kids, and needing to spend some time with them so they don't forget what I look like, and it becomes a real struggle to stay on top of life. Sometimes I feel a bit like this poor guy:
http://www.mypartypost.com/watchvideo/907/Commercial-Budweiser_(Referee)
So please, if people want to panic because we haven't had a recent release, I'm sorry. If people want to panic because OSG has broken a few things temporarily, I'm sorry. If I'm behind on my email, I'm sorry!
FlightGear is in large part an "engineering" simulator and needs to track the best technology of today to stay current and stay useful. But there are a lot of competing needs and goals within this project. There will always be competing ideas and needs, there will always be tension and debate and friction. But that is good, that is how we get stronger and better. If there was zero friction, zero competing ideas, zero debate about anything, we'd probably be going no where useful.
Curt.
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Curtis Olson - University of Minnesota - FlightGear Project
http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ http://www.flightgear.org
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