Geert, Sorry, it was not my intention to single you out with my comments about how the system appears to leave users out of the development loop. I know you and all the other active developers have limited time and can use whatever help users can give short of re-training in the tools that you are using.
I was not aware that there was a nightly build for Linux. That could be useful when I get enough of my personal prerequisites out of the way to try the current 4.x builds. I hope you are able to stay healthy and safe in these difficult times. On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 4:00 PM Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote: > Op woensdag 16 september 2020 21:46:14 CEST schreef David Carlson: > > > Geert, > > > > > > I believe some users have backed off of trying to express informed > opinions > > > about program development or documentation development because of various > > > roadblocks that have been thrown up. Sometimes we are ignored, sometimes > > > asked to learn obscure new skills, and occasionally chastised for waiting > > > until after the fact to 'complain', to name a few. > > > > > We're all contributing what we can in the limited time we have available. > If you feel being ignored, my apologies. Though that's probably because the > devs ran out of time/energy not because your opinion didn't matter. > > > > As for the obscure new skills, that depends on what we are talking about. > I think most users should be capable of installing a nightly build of > gnucash to test the current state of the program. That option is available > on Windows and linux. > > > > > There is a gap that we are having a hard time trying to deal with. I > don't > > > know if there would be a way to 'warn' users about pending changes before > > > they are released. Some programs put changes into an official beta > release > > > available to the general public some time before moving to the stable > > > release. Just an idea. > > > > > We do pre-releases for each major release. For GnuCash 4.x there were > 3.902 to 3.906. Those were the "official beta" releases as far as I can > tell. We did catch and revert another behavioural change thanks to user > testing during that cycle (that reverted change involved the way column > preferences for registers were stored) so it does matter if you test. > > > > > > But perhaps I'll just have to back off myself. I believe I'm getting > burned out on gnucash support. Sorry. > > > > Regards, > > > > Geert > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
