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</head><body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">We are actively working towards and making progress on re-establishing a regular release process, infrastructure, and pumpkin holder.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On October 21, 2017 3:49:48 PM MST, Karl Kleinpaste <karl@kleinpaste.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<font face="FreeSerif">Today is 21 October. That means it is now
one full year since the supposed "release wrapup" for 1.8.0 began.<br />
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.crosswire.org/pipermail/sword-devel/2016-October/043928.html">https://www.crosswire.org/pipermail/sword-devel/2016-October/043928.html</a><br />
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Let me say that again.<br />
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We have gone 365 days without a release, since the opening,
concrete suggestion of an impending release was made.<br />
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It is one thing to admit, as we all must, that our time to work on
this project waxes and wanes.<br />
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However it is another thing entirely to realize that it has
already taken a year since first claim for next release, without
achieving that result.<br />
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And it is yet a 3rd thing to note that an RC came out in April --
both six months <i>later</i> and now six months <i>ago</i> --
consequent to which literally nothing seems to have been done,
because it is still a 4th thing that when the 2nd RC came out -- 5
weeks later at end of May -- a problem I had reported within hours
of the 1st RC had received exactly no attention, all of this
ultimately leading to the open question, "What precisely is the <i>purpose</i>
of an RC, if not to solicit feedback and fix problems found,
immediately prior to release?" It's called a release candidate,
after all, the idea of which is supposed to be that you're at the
edge of kicking the real, final thing out the door to the public.
But no, that was 6 months ago, and ... well, nothing. Oh, a bit
about a delay in August due to a life milestone -- all well and
good -- but the offered horizon on that event was 3 weeks, not
another two-plus months.<br />
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I had more that I thought I would include in this email, but I
can't handle the additional bile inducement. You have no idea how
much anger, resentment, bitterness, and depression is stewing out
here.<br />
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