On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 1:33:34 PM UTC-7, sebastian wrote:
>
> Hi cfh
>
> I agree with you and I believe in the community. So any time that I can I
> give my small contribution to different communities (web2py is one of them).
> At the same time I believe that the main reason because web2py is not so
> commercially popular as Django o RoR (just have a look to any job site)is
> not just because of the marketing or age. I keep getting the same comments
> from most of the people that I've introduced the framework to: ie: it is
> great, easy to learn and to use..... but.... it is not stable/robust, bugs
> are found frequently after each so called "stable" release, (even if most
> are fixed within days and released in another "stable" release), users
> (developers that didn't choose RoR or Django and want to use their time for
> solving other problems not related to the tools) keep finding bugs in Stable
> releases (just see the mailing list).... so basically they say that they do
> not want to be what common users were (are??) for Microsoft: TESTERS !....
>
Note, I don't Massimo was asking you to be a tester. You identified a bug,
which he thinks might be fixed in trunk, but he can't know unless you tell
him. If you tell him it's not fixed in trunk, then he'll probably fix it. If
you wait until trunk is released and becomes stable, and the bug has not
actually been fixed, then you'll have to wait for a whole new release before
the bug is fixed. So, it just depends on how fast you want the bug fixed.
Also, note that the nightly build is not necessarily the same as trunk
(i.e., I don't think it is actually updated nightly), so you should test
trunk if you want to see if it is fixed.
Finally, note that it's not really the case that "stable" releases have a
lot of bugs. You should really think of the 1.xx.1 release as a release
candidate. When that is released, bugs are identified and fixed within a few
days, and it becomes stable fairly quickly. The alternative is to have
actual release candidates, but it turns out that no one is ever really
willing to test them when labeled as such (actually, that's what the nightly
builds are supposed to be for).
Best,
Anthony
