Yesterday, 06:59 PM
(Yesterday, 03:40 PM)Kandy Wrote: They took six months, and nobody reported the issue you're having because it's a niche issue. Have you created bug reports to help this get solved?
People really need to understand that it's not the same a 6 month period of beta testing than releasing it to the general public, with hundreds or thousands of different setups, use cases and different knowledge to be able to troubleshoot. And people asking to test it more before releasing usually don't understand that general users feedback is needed to polish a build that was perfectly stable for a reduced number of people during testing. If you change the entire way of how the database is handled (and devs explained why this was needed) on an open source project, most likely you'll end up with either years of beta testing (and with a lot of bugs anyway when it gets released) or a general release with undetected bugs that are more likely to get fixed with the help of the entire community. And to the users that ask why it's so difficult to fix a particular bug, haven't they looked at the code (probably not)? Nothing in JF is simple, it's a great and very complex piece of software, otherwise everyone could fix their own bugs. I don't think the devs are overlooking anything, it's just that they have to fix a lot of bugs and not all of them have priority number one (and at the same time they have to keep developing the project without staying all the time squashing bugs). Tbh, I don't even know how they find the time to do all of this without it being their real job.
So I support the way the team is managing the releases. If you want stability and all the good stuff that JF has, you can stay on 10.10.7 and still have a great experience. If you want cutting edge features at the cost of a more buggy experience, but want to help by reporting, by all means upgrade to 10.11.x. Other projects don't give you options or think about specific use cases. I really can't think of a better way to handle releases without slowing the project development a lot by having ultra beta tested releases (and that get out to the public after a year or two, while losing their feedback).
Just my opinion.