The dom:loaded bug is critical as far as I'm concerned and should have warranted a bug fix release right away. Lack of updates is definitely turning out to be a sore spot with Prototype unfortunately.
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Ryan H <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm a long time prototype.js user, and while I very much appreciate > the software I (along with others) have had some frustrations with the > infrequency of bugfix releases. As one example, it has been over four > months since the 1.6.0.3 release, and during that time dom:loaded has > had problems on IE6 (lighthouse issue #127) despite the fact that a > fix has been available since shortly after 1.6.0.3 came out. While > it's easy enough to grab the bugfix from the issue tracker or GIT for > these sorts of issues, I think it might be beneficial to understand > the reasons why bugfix releases are so infrequent and if there is > anything the community can do to help speed up the process, such as > testing. Is it beneficial to add lighthouse comments indicating "this > works for me and fixes the issue", or to add posts to this group > indicating tickets that might be seen as higher priority? Is there > anything else that prototype.js users can do? > > After 1.6.0.3 came out there was a blog post ("growing the community") > that indicated more frequent releases were a goal: > > "This means, among other things, that we're planning to move away from > a "when it's ready" release schedule. Instead, we'll move toward one > in which there are several releases per year; whatever is ready in > time for a given release will go in, and whatever is not will have to > wait. That applies to bug fixes and features alike. Eight months > between releases just won't work." > > Moving to a schedule in which bugs were fixed more quickly would be a > huge benefit, so please share any way that users might be able to help > make that happen. > > Ryan Holliday > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
