David Rees wrote:
On Nov 28, 2007 12:47 AM, Andreas Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mick Johnson wrote:
We'll be putting out the next patch release early next year, and would like
anyone interested in being a tester to please drop us a line! You can always
Sorry, I don't understand why this is required. Create a source package
release it to the public. People will try and test it and report back to the
dev mailing list. There are a lot of people doing patches atm.
Again, I concur. At the very least, there are enough patches floating
around to warrant a 3.8.1 release.
I'm afraid that if development doesn't happen out in the open, it will
be more difficult to attract outside developers and testers. If that
is not a priority and development remains behind closed doors, then I
would suspect that would motivate people to fork the project. Just
look at all the discussion that has take place about forking dspam
recently because of the lack of response from Sensory Networks.
Yes. I participated in one of those "open but closed" tester programs
for a different product; after a year of testing, submitting bug reports
and developing what we thought was an excellent rapport with the
company, we got a terse 'Thank you and the beta mailing list is now
closed' note, and no more support from the company unless we paid.
It really left a bad taste in my mouth; either treat me as a co-owner /
co-developer or as a customer, but don't do this halfway open/closed
thing. I won't do it again.
I am excited to see some response from Sensory Networks. I hope that
development can continue as dspam is an excellent spam filter.
Yes. I'd like to see better installation / setup automation.
--Yan
