Lars Hansson wrote:
> Eh, shouting down? Matt Perry's message is anything but constructive.
> I'd be pretty pissed off too if someone tried to tell me how to do my
> job and basicly accused me of being incompetent.

*Releasing* a version of razor which fails to actually check spam
(http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/2539/25/9004534/), and which
throws a warning on 'make test'
(http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/2539/25/9005055/) doesn't
fill me with confidence as to their methodology.  I mean, how long can you
spend QAing a release if it's only two days since your last one?

The releases of Razor2 so far have been of "alpha" quality (IMO), yet
branded as betas.  There have been 10 "releases" over the last two weeks,
each of which have fixed some bugs, but introduced new ones.  It just seems
sloppy to me.

I guess I just have higher expectations of professional developers.

Maybe I've been spoiled by SA.  I think the development & release process on
this app work very well (There's a a sizable handful of people trying out
the CVS code.  When they think it's mature enough, the maintainers doe a
release, then issue a bug/score-fix release a week or so later to correct
any issues found when deployed to the wider audience).  But the Razor2
releases so far have just been a cluster.

> It's not a commercial product, you dont pay
> anything, shit happens.


That's a piss-poor excuse, and particularly pointless in the case of Razor.

Razor only works if there are active users.  If people have bad experiences,
they'll just uninstall it from their machine, stop reporting spam to them,
and make the program less valuable.  Right now, there is no clear way to
download a working version of Razor from their website.  (Indeed, they
haven't even updated it to link to v2.10)

My opinions of Vipul + Co have certainly dropped recently.  Not enough to
stop using Razor, but it had better start adding value soon, or I'll just
stick with the very-excellent (and, at the moment, more effective) DCC.

IMO.

rOD.

--
"If I was a front porch swing, would you let me hang?
 If I was a dancefloor, would you shake your thang?
 If I was a rubber check, would you let me bounce
 Up and down inside your bank account?"

>> Doing the blogging thang again at http://www.groovymother.com/ <<




-------------------------------------------------------
Sponsored by:
ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/
_______________________________________________
Spamassassin-talk mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Reply via email to