04-08-2010, 02:04 PM
This new version is going to be a lot of work. It's going to be much bigger than 2.90. At the current rate of developing, cleaning the source alone will take a good 3 months. 2.90 was mostly a 1 man job by me because of the amount of free time I had - something that I don't have anymore. We need as many developers working on it as possible.
People reporting stuff to .dev are mostly clueless about how it works. I'd say about 2% of the 'reports' are valid ones. I just don't see what needs to be changed with 2.91. It's been stable for weeks. The only real issue left was the SaveInfo which is why I worked hard on it for .19.
Posting updates every fortnight will decrease the excitement for 2.92 because people won't really be waiting for it. When I was developing 2.90, I think overall in the 11 month development period there where 3 blog posts. People were really excited, I think we hit over 70 players on the public beta. Afterward when you were releasing 2.90 updates every week, the topics were getting about 2 pages of replies because not that many people cared. When those releases stopped for a few weeks and I announced 2.91 details, it gathered a lot more interest.
It's clear one of the reasons for these regular updates is to keep the website news alive. Surely there are others ways of doing that?
People reporting stuff to .dev are mostly clueless about how it works. I'd say about 2% of the 'reports' are valid ones. I just don't see what needs to be changed with 2.91. It's been stable for weeks. The only real issue left was the SaveInfo which is why I worked hard on it for .19.
Posting updates every fortnight will decrease the excitement for 2.92 because people won't really be waiting for it. When I was developing 2.90, I think overall in the 11 month development period there where 3 blog posts. People were really excited, I think we hit over 70 players on the public beta. Afterward when you were releasing 2.90 updates every week, the topics were getting about 2 pages of replies because not that many people cared. When those releases stopped for a few weeks and I announced 2.91 details, it gathered a lot more interest.
It's clear one of the reasons for these regular updates is to keep the website news alive. Surely there are others ways of doing that?