On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 18 January 2011 16:14, Derek Atkins <warl...@mit.edu> wrote: >> [...] >> PS: For the record, the Alpha releases vociferously exclaim that you >> could lose data by using them. >> > > However it is also unfortunately true that for some time the principle > download link on the home page was to the alpha version and it was not > at all clear that it was an alpha version. I can quite see how users > found themselves running this thinking they had a stable release.
That conflicts with what I've seen on the website. The announcements of the 2.3.xx series had prominent warnings, e.g., "WARNING: This is an *UNSTABLE* version of Gnucash. This release is intended for developers and testers who want to help tracking down all those bugs that are still in there. Make sure you make backups of any files used in testing versions of GnuCash in the 2.3.x series. Although the developers go to great lengths to ensure that no data will be lost we cannot guarantee that your data will not be affected if for some reason GnuCash crashes in testing these releases." And they were called "Unstable" in the title of the release! And furthermore, the primary download link was to 2.2.9 (even for a day or so after 2.4.0 was released). I don't see how this could have been handled more clearly or more conservatively, to avoid someone inadvertently running a test version in a production setting. I'm even more surprised at the tone and imprecision of the user's posts here after learning that Derek went out of his way to help him. /Don > > Colin > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
