Re: [Mldonkey-users] getting frustrated

[b8_bavard]

Hi,

  I understand that all users are frustrated that the development is
currently stalled, so here are some good news. First, we will apply
before saturday all of the patches submitted to savannah, and commit
the resulting new version to the CVS as stable. If beta-testing is ok,
we will then release a binary version on sunday. So, if you have
urgent patches, submit them to savannah now !

  For the development itself, the main problem is that we are all very
busy these days, until the end of october. After that, the development
should restart at normal speed. The other problem is that there is a
duplication of work, because we have two incompatible branches, and
patches have to be applied to both of them. So, either we can find a
maintainer for the stable branch until the new devel branch is ok (he
needs to know ocaml and apply the patches which are interesting), or
we will have to switch to the devel branch very fast to avoid this
duplication. Anyways, everything should improve at the beginning of
november, so keep hope :)

- Fabrice (b8_bavard)

>  Hi List,
>  
>  as most of you know the last stable release of MLdonkey is now months ago. 
> If 
>  there were no problems this would be ok, but unfortunately, there are 
>  problems... lots of them, partly blocking.
>  As I'm somehow familiar with business and software acceptance I would say 
> that 
>  the longer a bug fixing waits the more expensive it will be to get the 
>  customers back, because some will already have switched to other products 
> and 
>  others will never come. OK, MLdonkey is free, but I think the developers 
> have 
>  at least the responsibility to say whether the development is going on and 
>  when we can expect a next (nearly) stable release. At least there should be 
>  an official hotfix release if something strange happened like the "search 
>  blocking" and the patch in
>  ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/mldonkey/pango/goodies/
>  didn't really fix it.
>  As a former fan of MLdonkey this is a bit frustrating.
>  
>  Still hoping...
>  
>  Andre