Re: Should we officially kill the 0.22 ?

On Wednesday 25 March 2009 12:47:12 Bjoern Ricks wrote:
> If we decide to do this we need a post in the wiki which explains our
> decision in detail.

Yes, it was partially our fault that 0.3x got included into distros as I
added the banner to the frontpage *after* this mistake took place in
Fedora. But it was not a secret that those were not stable releases.
It was probably caused by the KDE requirement and the rest is history.

> I am not sure if 0.22 is unusable and should be dropped from distos too.
> Never used that old version. Sometimes it works and sometimes not. That
> decision is up to distro maintainers.

I've been testing multisync and opensync versions from 0.16, have packaged
them and tested with pile of different Nokia phones. There has been some
success along the way, but for continous use, the 0.22 just didn't cut it,
slowsync never worked and you eventually fall into that anyway. Well, we
have a pile of tickets proving that case.

> Btw. why people always claim about the opensync development and don't
> get involved with the development??? There must be hundreds of users out
> there and only a few people care about our project.

I'd guess that our large breakage that drives the testers away (remember
that potential developers are testers too) and project complexity are
the main reasons. I also remember how complex everything felt at start and
still don't understand all areas deeply enough. Thus I'm pro binary
testing packages, everyone compiling themselves doesn't add that much value
here.


Tuju

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