On 11/2/2024 9:26 PM, William Prescott wrote:
From Seth's comment below, it appears that the problem is only with MacOS
15.2, the public beta. Has anyone else confirmed that Gnucash 5.9-1 runs okay
on MacOS 15.1?
Best wishes,
Will
This tells me time to remind folks what "alpha" and "beta" mean for
software versions.
"alpha" is the stage of new version testing where USER testing is
initially taking place. It is expected that there will be many bugs
discovered. The users, at this stage should only be folks in close
contact with the developers. In other words, they are volunteer testers.
They would be reporting problems they encounter directly to the
developers with which they are working.
"beta" is the next stage, where the version is made available to a wider
range of users. It is expected that most things will be working properly
but that there will still be some bugs here and there. In other words,
being distributed on a "use if you dare" basis. Maybe the parts YOU use
are all working OK. Ideally a beta user should be familiar with how to
report bugs. But the user is under less obligation toward getting things
fixed. In other words, might simply choose yo abandon the beta version
and revert to the last stable. A beta user should be willing to pick up
fixes as they are announced.
The point is, a beta user should not "complain" about something not
working. It is still use at your own risk.
NOTE: This affects how people should report "bugs". Especially with
alpha, but also with beta, it is reasonable to assume something going
wrong is a bug. But users of stable should not immediately assume
something going wrong is a bug. Before calling it a bug, ASK "I was
doing so and so and something went wrong. Anybody else seeing this? Is
so and so working for you?" The reason for this is to not burden the
developers with researching non-bug problems. If something seems to be
working for everybody else but not for you more likely not an actual
bug. Will first need to carefully examine how everybody else is doing so
and so with how you are. IF it is actually a bug, will depend on any
differences.
Michael D Novack
PS -- know why we call them "bugs"? << the origin of the tern >>
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