8 hours ago
zx1970 im sorry but i just cant agree. i really dont like this kind of black and white thinking that always comes up in these discussions. i do get that people get frustrated when an update breaks stuff, esp when you just wanna sit down and watch a movie, but we gotta be realistic about it.
every bit of software out there, no matter how big or how much money behind it, has had breaking changes or buggy releases. thats just how software works when its being improved or rebuilt. this isnt unique to this project, even the huge paid ones go through the same thing.
and while yeah its fair to expect some level of stability, its just not realistic to expect a bunch of volantier devs to run things like a massive company with full qa teams and test systems. these devs do this for free in their own time, and the progress depends on the community giving feedback and reporting bugs after a release, not just complaining about them.
there also needs to be some responsability on users too. keep backups, understand theres always some risk when upgrading, if this application is critical for you then you should be testing the upgrade in a vm or another docker container, if you are working on bare metal accept the risk that this might happen to youif something goes wrong. Peeople really need to report it so it helps the project. thats how open source stuff gets better.
so yeah, i get people being annoyed, but this kind of project only keeps growing if people help each other out instead of just pointing fingers.
every bit of software out there, no matter how big or how much money behind it, has had breaking changes or buggy releases. thats just how software works when its being improved or rebuilt. this isnt unique to this project, even the huge paid ones go through the same thing.
and while yeah its fair to expect some level of stability, its just not realistic to expect a bunch of volantier devs to run things like a massive company with full qa teams and test systems. these devs do this for free in their own time, and the progress depends on the community giving feedback and reporting bugs after a release, not just complaining about them.
there also needs to be some responsability on users too. keep backups, understand theres always some risk when upgrading, if this application is critical for you then you should be testing the upgrade in a vm or another docker container, if you are working on bare metal accept the risk that this might happen to youif something goes wrong. Peeople really need to report it so it helps the project. thats how open source stuff gets better.
so yeah, i get people being annoyed, but this kind of project only keeps growing if people help each other out instead of just pointing fingers.