Hi cgg,
I don't know if I've got you right. Do you mean a defrag release in the near future is off the table?
Maybe you can tell me something more about your plans of the defrag future?
From my point of view the current defrag version is quite aged and the community waits for an update for a long time now. I don't know exactly if the community grows or shrinks but I guess the second case is true.
I understand that you don't have much time for defrag but if we won't release something in the near future I fear that there is no community left at all to develop defrag for.
Maybe we could release a pre-version or alpha-version that is stated as "unstable" and the community can test things out. This would also help to find bugs and people who don't want to use this version can still play the stable 1.91 version. If people know that a version is "unstable" they can play around with it, create maps for it and try some cool new stuff. And successive we can fix bugs, improve things and finally finish a stable version in the far future.
The release of this "unstable" version will have some positive effects:
- the community realize that there is still a defrag development with their own eyes
- bugs will be found (we have many testers)
- we got feedback for new features and could decide to keep, discard or change them
- we stop the shrinking of the community and possibly the community will grow
And I don't see any disadvantages by doing that. Think it over.
Greetings BeRsErKeR
Sure, I agree. I can help with the release process, that's not in itself a problem. My concern would be to leave 1.91 as it is and use 1.92 as an experimental/future releases branch. I also agree with your idea of having the players involved in the process.
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