On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 18 January 2011 17:30, Donald Allen <donaldcal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> On 18 January 2011 16:59, Donald Allen <donaldcal...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> 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. >>> >>> Note that I said "for some time". The website was much improved some >>> time in October I think. See also >>> >>> http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/Status-of-gnucash-need-for-clarification-tt1434648.html#a1434650 >> >> The announcement for 2.3.4 on 2009-08-19 reads: > > I am not disputing any of that. All I am saying is that for a while > the website was confusing, this was acknowledged and some significant > work was done, resulting in great improvements. There is no denying > that a number of users picked up 2.3 thinking it was the right version > to use. There have been a number of examples of people in this > situation asking for help on the user list.
What you are telling me is that there is a part of the population that doesn't read things carefully or at all, and gnucash.org found some of them. If you *read the announcement*, it could not be more clear, and the announcements were prominent on the website. I saw them with my own lying eyes. I didn't think the site was at all confusing, if you read what it said. /Don > > Colin > >> >> GnuCash 2.3.4 (Unstable) released >> >> The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.4, the fifth of >> several unstable 2.3.x releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software >> which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.4.0. With this new >> release series, GnuCash can use an SQL database using SQLite3, MySQL or >> PostgreSQL. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Mac >> OSX. >> >> 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. >> >> NOTE: The latest stable version is 2.2.9. >> >>> >>> 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