If I recall correctly, up until a couple months ago it was just Vipul doing all the work. When he brought in someone else, they saw a potential product for the market place and spent the last month or so quitting their jobs and setting up a biz. At the same time, they completely rewrote razor. You have to at least commend them for developing something in 8 weeks for people to start getting their hands on. I know I was one that kept nagging them about v2. I tried every update they released and I only saw a problem with the version 2.10 release but then again, I'm not running it in production yet anyway because I know it's work in progress.
-----Original Message----- From: rODbegbie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 11:41 PM To: Lars Hansson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Razor 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 ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
