https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56310
Neill Mitchell <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|WONTFIX |--- --- Comment #9 from Neill Mitchell <[email protected]> --- Perhaps I'm getting a bit old school, but I feel there is some fundamental principal of software engineering being missed here. The issue was raised against the current stable release version of SMW as detailed here: http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Download This is not "active development", it is bug fixing. People cannot always run the latest and greatest versions of everything on their servers, especially when there are a number of interdependencies involved. The stable release version is going to be around for a while yet and should never get left hanging out to dry. Reported issues should not just be closed out of hand. If the issue is not present with the SMW master that's great, but the bug was not raised against SMW master so providing a test case is not relevant to the report. I think some clarity is required here. Are you suggesting that people have to constantly update their instances to SMW master in order to receive bug fixes going forward? What is going to happen when SMW 1.9 is released and you start working on 1.10? Are you then not going to do any bug fixing on the newly released 1.9? Will be users have to use the 1.10 branch to receive fixes for any issues that arise with 1.9? If this is a new policy going forward, then I think people need to be made aware of this right now before committing themselves to a path that may not be suitable for them. I suggest further discussion should be made on the mailing list and a support policy published. I'm curious as to who the developers being referred to are? I thought SMW was a community project? So in this spirit, I am re-opening this issue in case there is someone running the current stable release version with the time and interest to investigate and fix if required. If the bug is closed, it will not be seen by someone who might like to contribute. If the issue is not solved, or becomes irrelevant going forward we can review. I'm not trying to be difficult here. I just really don't want to see SMW adopting the constant beta model practised by the likes of Google et al. Quality inevitably suffers and people get fed up and lose interest. Perhaps I've misunderstood and this is not the path that has been chosen. kgh - Thanks for your suggestions, but my set up looks correct. The issue started after upgrading to from 1.8alpha to 1.8.0.5. Perhaps it is an upgrade issue. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
