On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 11:21:57PM +0100, Alberto Garcia wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:59:08PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > > I don't know, I think I would understand you better if I had a > > > list of specific problems that make this software unsuitable for > > > release. > > > > I currently have a connection to my homeserver on 2 devices, and > > pidgin isn't receive any messages, but riot is. I have this problem > > every few days. And like I said, it's not clear where the problem > > is. It looks I can actually send things when in that state, and > > other people receive it, I just don't receive anything back. And > > people generally blame purple-matrix for that if I tell I'm using > > that. > > Ok, interesting. > > > > > Like I said, if you think that you can support this version for > > > > the next 3 years, I have no problem with it. But I wouldn't add > > > > it to a stable release yet in it's current state. > > > > > > I plan to keep using this plugin for the foreseeable time. > > > > But do you think you'll still use this version, or will you upgrade > > the version you're running when there is a new upstream version? > > Well, I'll upgrade it of course, and if there's any critical fix I'll > try to backport it. > > > > Maybe I'm missing something, what is the scenario that you are > > > worried about? > > > > So some of my worries: > > - It crashes for me a few times a week. > > - There seem to be various issues that don't make it behave > > properly. > > - Maybe next year some of those issues have been fixed in > > purple-matrix, it's recommended to use it for the desktop, > > but then people install the version from Debian stable and > > get a crappy version. > > But how is that scenario better if there's no version at all in Debian > stable?
That they try to find it in a different place, like backports. An other thing I'm concerned about is that I don't see any activity upstream. Kurt
