I, for one, truly appreciate what you are saying Ted.
Sometimes the issue for RT is man power -- balancing
spinning plates on sticks can keep everyone pretty
busy. :-) Automation is the key. We've been working
recently on some internal automations to help us
address this "active development" question that you
mention. Stay tuned and keep the faith!
-jeff
> Personally, I've always felt that this is a strategic
> error.
>
> I think the fact that REBOL.COM doesn't mention bugs, or
> offer a standard knowledgebase, makes it look like a beta
> site. (Hasn't been out long enough to generate reports --
> or no one's using it long enough to find them!)
>
> Every active software project has defects. The difference
> between the good projects and bad projects is whether they
> get fixed. Looking at the REBOL site, there's not a lot to
> show someone that that the language is being actively
> supported.
>
> Of course, those of us on the list know better, but you
> shouldn't have to wade through all this for bug reports. A
> strong knowledgebase would save a lot of debugging time,
> and keep new users from being frustrated too early.
>
> http://bugs.perl.org/ http://www.python.org/python-bugs/
> http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/support/ -- option
> for Bug database http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/
>
> To name a few.
>
> -Ted.