From: Nikolai Weibull Date: 2012-02-07T18:39:22+09:00 Subject: Re: Tork 18.0.0 On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:11, Ryan Davis wrote: > > On Feb 6, 2012, at 21:41 , Nikolai Weibull wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 02:36, Suraj Kurapati wrote: >>> Marvin Gülker wrote in post #1044440: >>>> Am 06.02.2012 22:07, schrieb Bartosz Dziewoński: >>>>> You have faster major version release cycle than Chrome... >> >>>> I was hoping to see version 100.0.0 this year's christmas. >> >>> I'm just following RubyGems' Rational Versioning Policy: >>> >>>  http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/7 >> >> But perhaps you could rationalize your release cycles. > Suraj writes open source software and is free to do so in any way he wants. If you don't like it or the way he does it then don't use his software. But he doesn't have to explain himself to you or anyone else. Personally I think the way he writes software makes it less usable, but he says that this works well for him and that's really all he needs. More power to him. I don’t understand what you’re getting at. Do you feel that I wrote something untoward? If so, what? If you felt the need to defend Suraj, are you assuming that he cannot do so himself? And, if you must write responses such as this, could you please do it in a pleasant and constructive manner? Not everyone is looking for a fight on this mailing list and considering that most of my spare energy is currently going towards taking care of a displeased baby, I really don’t have any left over for people like you trying to pick a fight. I commented on this subject because I felt that Suraj is making it very hard to use his software, as it’s constantly changing and its thus nearly impossible to gain any of the benefits that come with updates. I didn’t feel that I needed to spend too many words explaining this, as, as you yourself point out, I’m sure he’s well aware of this himself. But, if need be, I think, Suraj, that you could make it a lot easier for your users to use your software if you didn’t make, what I would consider, minor changes to external interfaces, so easily. And if you do, collect more of them between mayor releases so that your users don’t have to look through a change log every week to get up to speed with the latest release. Please consider this comment as constructive criticism.