On 05/24/2011 12:37 AM, Greg Stein wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 00:10, Ivan Zhakov <ivan_at_visualsvn.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 08:02, Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> ...
>>> The stated intent has been to try and get ra_serf in people's hands. That
>>> also means putting it into the alphas.
>>>
>>> You've opened issues to track the showstoppers. If they are fixed, then
>>> we're good.
>>>
>> Is it makes sense to release ra_serf in alphas if there are known
>> showstopper bugs?
>
> 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. :-)
But sure, I agree that we may go to alpha without addressing every known
major issue here.
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Received on 2011-05-24 17:37:16 CEST