Thanks for the additional background, Chris.

While this issue awaits a solution, it would be nice if the FAQ on the website 
covered this issue.

--
Kevin Yank
http://kevinyank.com/

On 21/07/2012, at 1:08 PM, Chris Forsythe <[email protected]> wrote:

> Growl 2 has only crashes and this issue targeted to it now, any new features 
> are already complete and were worked on while the root cause of this high cpu 
> issue was being investigated. Resolving this issue requires rewriting the 
> entire networking stack, which is not a small task. It wouldn't matter if it 
> were done for Growl 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, 2, 2000, or some other random number. 
> 
> To be clear about what's left for Growl 2, here is what's left:
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/growl/issues/list?can=2&q=Product%3DGrowl+Milestone%3D2.0+&colspec=ID+Type+Status+Priority+Milestone+Owner+BlockedOn+Summary+Product&cells=tiles
> 
> That's it. We have a start at login issue, 2 crash issues, looking into the 
> switch making a bit more sense to some people, and then making sure that 
> things are set up for localization properly. That's it. There are no new 
> features. This issue has had our attention ever since it was first reported, 
> we've spent more time on this than on any other single feature/issue/bug in 
> the last 10 years. I'm sorry that you feel it's not being resolved quickly 
> enough, but if we don't do this right we could end up putting out a version 
> with another issue, and then another, etc etc.
> 
> This issue is unfortunately just taking time, and that's the bottom line. I 
> hope this explanation covers a bit more ground so that you understand where 
> we're at with this.
> 
> -- 
> Chris Forsythe
> @The_Tick
> 
> On Friday, July 20, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Kevin Yank wrote:
> 
>> I agree with Carsten. Development on 2.0 should stop immediately to make 
>> time for a 1.4.1 to fix this critical issue. Consider that most new Mac 
>> users today use MacBooks, and right now Growl turns into a battery-guzzling 
>> monster several times a day without notice.
>> 
>> As a longtime Growl user, given this level of service for what is now a paid 
>> product, I find myself hoping for all my apps to ditch Growl and switch to 
>> 10.8’s Notification Center right away. :(
>> 
>> --
>> Kevin Yank
>> http://kevinyank.com/
>> 
>> 
>> On Thursday, July 12, 2012 5:38:42 AM UTC+10, Daniel Siemer wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello all, thought I would stop in here and make sure that everyone 
>>> did know that we do know the cause of this bug, and are working 
>>> actively to fix it once and for all.  Growl 2.0 will have the fix, it 
>>> is not done yet, but it has made very good progress so far, and I have 
>>> not seen the cause of this in my personal testing yet, and we will 
>>> work to keep you updated on when testing and such will begin. 
>>> 
>>> On Jul 10, 2:51 pm, Nikolaj de Fine Licht <[email protected]> wrote: 
>>> > Please let me know how I can help. I have the same issue with 1.4 on a 
>>> > 2.2 
>>> > GHz Core i7 15" MBPro running 10.7.4. It happens every 3-4 days, showing 
>>> > 130% CPU usage. 
>>> > 
>>> > Nikolaj 
>>> > 
>>> > Den onsdag den 27. juni 2012 06.19.21 UTC+2 skrev Christopher Forsythe: 
>>> > 
>>> > 
>>> > 
>>> > 
>>> > 
>>> > 
>>> > 
>>> > 
>>> > 
>>> > > Unfortunately it has not. We had to put out the 1.4 update to get the 
>>> > > fixes in before the sandboxing deadline, and to get the new start at 
>>> > > login 
>>> > > stuff in as well so that we could remove the older stuff from the 
>>> > > startup 
>>> > > list gracefully. The cpu issue is very complicated and essentially we 
>>> > > ran 
>>> > > out of time. 
>>> > 
>>> > > Chris
>> 
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