Excellent point Bob. A consideration could be made for a separate tester/coder email reflector. Joe
-----Original Message----- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Bob McGwier Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 6:44 PM To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] All using SVN 3166 or higher Hello friends of Flex! blip/flip fixed in SVN 3170 in the test branch. BUT THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE OFFICIAL FLEX RELEASES. Folks, I do want to really urge you to use direct email to individuals involved in the coding AND the bug reporting system to report on these branches. It leaves the wrong impression with people who are completely unfamiliar with svn, branches, trunks, and the impression is that "we have buggy unfinished code being distributed" or that we are keystone cops. There is only one place for official releases. To the best of our knowledge, that code is stable, usable, wonderful. We are doing development in the open unlike almost anyone else in the business but we cannot be punished by having bad publicity for doing something good and unusual. If you are one who cannot take a download from svn, watch it completely break, and then be content with waiting FOREVER if necessary for a fix after you have given an officially acceptable report, then a) don't take the download and b) stick with the official release. These are on the web site. THAT is what should be discussed here unless it is your intent to harm Flex Radio. I do not believe that is anyone's intention and I urge you to stop. If you think this is a reaction to a specific incident as well as a collection of previous incidents. You would be .... RIGHT. On the blip/flip in the test branch (completely ALPHA unstable test code, that would be why it is called...... TEST). Last week Eric and I were trying something else. We left it in an indeterminate state, one that is quite normal in alpha code, when Eric went away for 3 days and I took a badly needed weekend off (I have been traveling nonstop for 3 weeks). We cannot do this and have a dozen people howl on the reflector here giving hundreds of potential customers the impression that we are the keystone cops. I uploaded a sdr library (DttSP.dll) that had a problem in it. Dozens of emails later in this reflector and we have given the wrong impression to almost all who have stopped by. The code we are talking about is not an official release and I am now taking the following discipline for myself. I will not discuss alpha code here in any way ever again. I will personally simply ignore all mention of them here. I urge this on my fellow coding types. A remedy to our communication is on the way I believe by giving a place for people who want to test possibly broken code openly and Gerald will be announcing his proposed solution soon enough. We want your input, we cannot live without it, but it does none of us any good to hurt Flex Radio while we are trying to do good. The good has to outweigh the downside or the downside will simply win. 73's Bob N4HY Dudley Hurry wrote: > It has been reported that if you see the panadapter jump for normal to > flat line about every second or so.. To get out of these situation, > change the Sample rate to a different sample and then back. I've > seen this on the 3K and 5K intermittently. I can't explain why, but > the change in sample rate seems to help. > 73, > Dudley > > WA5QPZ > > > > Brian Lloyd wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Bob McGwier <rwmcgw...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Yes, but the changes you are referring to actually occurred in >>> 3160. I contend you just didn't svn up until 3166 after I made >>> those changes. >>> >>> >>> There have been two major improvements in CW recently in the test >>> branch. These are being beat up and more done before they are >>> released. Thanks for the feedback. This will all be in the upcoming >>> stable release. >>> >> >> Test Branch SVN 3160 works fine. SVN 3166 and 3167 still appear >> broken. Any idea what happened between 3160 and 3166 to cause the >> problem? >> >> >> 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FlexRadio Systems Mailing List >> FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz >> http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ >> Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: >> http://www.flex-radio.com/ >> >> > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flex-radio.com/ > -- (Co)Author: DttSP, Quiktrak, PowerSDR, GnuRadio Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. "You don't need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.", MLK. 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