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Re: "... first release candidate is expected in August 2011." Really?

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 11:58:30 -0400

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:36, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
> On 05/24/2011 12:37 AM, Greg Stein wrote:
>...
>> I've been using ra_serf for 2.5 years. I have had zero productivity
>> problems. I see no reason to assume that people will have problems
>> with any release based on ra_serf. You have identified some edge cases
>> which we need to fix, but I don't see it as a blocker for an alpha.
>
> With respect, "it works for me" is not such a useful argument when "me" is
> probably not using ra_serf on every common platform/environment/dataset/etc.
>  Surely enough folks here that you trust to not be complete idiots have
> struggled with ra_serf over the past several years to justify at least
> skepticism on this front.  :-)

Sure. And until recently, nobody would cough up reproduction recipes
or file bugs. Instead, there was simply a "hand wave" that problems
existed. Not very actionable.

There are now two or three recipes that can be used to track down
issues. This is good.

But my point still stands: if I can be productive on it, then I
presume many others can, too. And until we get *reported* failures
from those other people, I have little data to suggest the sky is
falling and ra_serf should be pulled at this time.

Cheers,
-g
Received on 2011-05-24 17:59:00 CEST

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