Sorry I've been quiet lately, I've been buried in my Civ modding work.
Regarding point 2 I've gotta echo winters comments. I'm still getting people in
my Colonization groups and on other retro gaming places saying that they're
using the old 11 stable release because they're 'scared' of the nightly
releases thinking they'll break their pc or ruin their game etc. I sound like a
broken record trying to convince people out there to go the nightly release
route.
I notice things are pretty quiet these days so I worry that if we keep holding
out for that perfect 12.0 release it'll never happen. Plus people respond to
version numbers different in todays world compared to 20 years ago. These days
a major version release with .0 on the end is almost expected to be a buggy
mess leading to .1 and .2 etc minor updates lol! Eg with my opensource video
editing and recording software I actively avoid .0 releases and wait for those
.1 etc releases as they're always full of critical fixes to issues in the main
release.
Winter is right in that a major new release will generate renewed interest and
traffic which could lead to more helpers. If there's a 12 release I can market
the s*** out of it across heaps of retro sites groups and forums. I should also
say that while I've been quiet on freecol lately I've actually gone back and
redone my unreleased 2018 FreeCol video tour to contain lots more update to
date information and cool stuff (eg the more maps and nations packs etc). The
video is pretty much ready to go now. I'm just putting it's release on ice
while I finish up my Civ1 and Civ2 scenario work but if you guys do a 12.0
release, then I'll get my baby uploaded and out there early so I can use it to
help promote the game and the new release!
Regards
Blake
On Friday, 27 August 2021, 11:09:10 pm ACST, win...@genial.ms
<win...@genial.ms> wrote:
Hi,
I guess, everyone was having more important things to do?
As I did not have any time either besides answering the few
questions people still have, I was struggling with if/how
I could ask again.
1. Is the CI problem fixable?
There is no way to even trigger a nightly release for months.
2. Shouldn't there be a real release then?
Have you seen on https://github.com/FreeCol/freecol/issues/54
people are asking for a release? I feel they have a point,
but I can not make it happen.
The last question was about getting the merge request with
the backport of the security fix to be 0.11.7. If it is
not possible to release 0.12.0 that may be a faster way
to get at least the security fix out to them?
Personally, I'd rather have a 0.12.0, even if the release
notes have to warn about the known problems. It should still
be an improvement of the current status. People seeing new
releases would also renew interest in the project.
Greetings,
wintertime
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