On Tuesday 18 January 2011, Donald Allen 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. 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." > Colin is right. The announcements for early 2.3.x development releases weren't very clear on this. At some point I improved on this, but it is indeed possible a user might have been confused by the early annoucements.
> 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. > At that time there was no primary download link yet on the website as there is now. I have added that around the same time I improved the announcements. > 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. > ...unless that mail was sent before the user got help from Derek. As I said , the mail was delayed (I suppose it was stuck in the moderator queue). Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel