You are above the rest, don't get too cautious. Bugs are OK, it shows you are progressing Burt
--- On Thu, 6/18/09, Gerald Youngblood <ger...@flex-radio.com> wrote: > From: Gerald Youngblood <ger...@flex-radio.com> > Dear FlexRadio customers: > > A separate "SVN Experimental/Development" reflector is > exactly what we plan > to implement. We will work out the details and make > an announcement here in > the next 1-2 weeks. FlexRadio Systems is the only > amateur radio company on > the planet that gives its customers (and competitors) > instantaneous access > to the daily software development source and binary code > base. This access > is a privilege we offer our customers, not a right. > > We know that our competitors point potential customers to > this reflector to > see discussions about experimental code that they use > against us to claim > that our software is buggy. This is a patently false > representation because > Official Releases are highly stable and fully > documented. On the other > hand, by definition experimental code (pre alpha) is always > buggy. > > So the bottom line is that if our customers want to play in > the developer's > SVN sandbox, some new rules will apply. In the > meantime, posts here should > only relate to Official Released versions of PowerSDR > (currently 1.18.0). > Thanks for your cooperation. > > Regards, > Gerald > > Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR > President > FlexRadio Systems > 13091 Pond Springs Rd. #250 > Austin, TX 78729 > Phone: 512-535-4713 > www.flex-radio.com > > "Tune in excitement!" (TM) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz > [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] > On Behalf Of Joe Roth-WC4R > Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:08 PM > To: 'Bob McGwier'; flexradio@flex-radio.biz > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] All using SVN 3166 or higher > > 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. > Twitter:rwmcgwier > Active: Facebook,Myspace,LinkedIn > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
