Good morning,
I would like to propose the immediate release of ircII-
EPIC4 2.0.1, regardless of whether any more "critical" bugs
are uncovered. I would justify this position via the rela-
tively poor state of the 2.0 release, in which several sig-
nificant bugs were reported after the release had been made.
Consider the typical user of the 2.0 release. Upon
installing the current, tested, released production version
of the client, starting it, and pressing ^S, the poor user
is greeted with a panic screen. The solution, apparently,
is either "don't do that" or "upgrade to the CVS version".
To me, neither of these options are acceptable. EPIC's
reputation as an "unstable" program are often lamented; I
must wonder if such problems as this are not the exact rea-
son for such a reputation. To have such an easily-triggered
crash is not only inconvenient for users, but, I would say,
an unacceptable situation in what claims to be the produc-
tion version of a mature software product.
Furthermore, I see no disadvantage to the production of
a new patchlevel release, other than the small amount of
manual effort required to do so; if this effort is so great
that it poses a problem, I would be quite happy to do it
myself!
Regards,
Edward.
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