aMule Forum
English => aMule Help => Topic started by: jifix on May 18, 2008, 03:14:57 PM
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there has 2 years since the last amule version release and 6 months since the last news. That is happenning? the project is dead? Emule has released a new version with protocol obfuse on kad and througth amule users away with this.
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Yeah, he project is dead. You can all go home now, without checking the dozens of threads per day this forum has, the constant changes in the aMule SVN, the fact that the 2.2.0 version is highly anticipated even if overdue, the fact that aMule has had since before the final eMule new release the same Kademlia network code, including the protocol obfuscation, and... well, pretty much everything that's going on.
Just make sure you turn off the light if you're the last one leaving.
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sorry i didn't check the svn version nor the forum.
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You didn't notice a forum you are posting in?
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i am a member since yesterday.
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I wanted to write a new news post, but other things had priority, I'll do it in the next days.
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In my opinion aMule's release model is a bit weird. You seem to be doing plenty of changes while neglecting to do a regular release. People (and distro maintainers) are confused because they stick to the latest release, which is useless now. I think you should pick your best stable snapshot and declare it 2.2, then keep adding things like you are doing now and in some months (6?) pick another good snapshot and declare it 2.2.1, 2.3 etc.
The way it looks now is like a race for perfection, as if 2.2.0 would be the final release ever, so its never coming out... Thankfully Ubuntu picked a snapshot (svn20080218) for 8.04, but Debian Sid still uses 2.1.3... (experimental containing a recent one).
In short, evaluate to do periodic "imperfect" releases of the best you have at certain point in time.
I suggest following the trend of a 6 month release cycle used by Openbsd, Gnome and Ubuntu.
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aMule has always released when the team considers the cvs/svn to be worth releasing. Sticking to a fixed timeframe like 6 months is, in my opinion, wrong for a lot of reasons.
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Well, Kry, guy has a point. If you ever worked in some industry, (and I suppose you do), you know that schedule makes sense. You don't have to literally stick to 1/2 year cycles, but you'd better to stick to some schedule.
And who is current project admin anyway?! Where's his response?
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I agree that we should have released a new stable version long ago, but we didn't. Making a precipitous release now won't help anybody.
lfroen: Currently we have no clear "leader", but decide the developmental roadmap in discussions between team members.
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svn log -r 7927
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| Maintainer(s): |
| K. B. aka deltaHF <deltahf@amule.org> |
| Mikkel Schubert aka Xaignar <xaignar@amule.org> |
| Marcelo Jimenez aka Phoenix <phoenix@amule.org> |
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| Developer(s): |
| Alex Martinez aka Unleashed <alex@unleashed.kicks-ass.org> |
| Ariano Bertacca aka bootstrap <ariano@hirnriss.net> |
| Dévai Tamás aka GonoszTopi <gonosztopi@amule.org> |
| efe aka the polish <thepolish@vipmail.ru> |
| Jacobo Vilella aka Jacobo221 <jacobo221@amule.org> |
| Jayson Cowan aka hellimod <jayson@spelljammer.com> |
| Ken Thomases aka ken <ken@codeweavers.com> |
| Leonid Froenchenko aka lfroen <lfroen@gmail.com> |
| Patrizio Bassi aka Hetfield <hetfield@amule.org> |
| Pedro De Oliveira aka falso <falso@rdk.homeip.net> |
| Stefan Baldus aka stefanero <stefanero@amule.org> |
| Tobias Ottmar aka Citroklar <citroklar@gmx.net> |
Watching activities of the last 2 months, that makes 3 active devs (malapraxis missing in the list btw), one busy translation-maintainer and zero maintainers.
They are doing a hell of a job right now, but will be hard-pressed to get out a release that thinly spread.
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lfroen: Currently we have no clear "leader", but decide the developmental roadmap in discussions between team members.
I did not asked for "leader" whatever it means, but for project admin - clearly defined role. WTF is this "roadmap" you're talking about? Anyway, I was talking about schedule, not roadmap.
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Upon me retiring, Xaignar and phoenix ( because deltaHF is kinda AWOL ) are sharing any administrative tasks.
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Upon me retiring, Xaignar and phoenix ( because deltaHF is kinda AWOL ) are sharing any administrative tasks.
Funny. I don't remember any of them commenting on "release or not" issues. Talk about "leader"
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Then maybe you should be more around the irc channels, or the roadmap forum.
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IRC is problematic a bit: first of all, there's a time difference. Next - I only can connect thru some kind of web-based portal, which doesn't support invite-only channels. As a result, I can connect only to #amule, not to the coders channel
You probably right about roadmap forum
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Upon me retiring, Xaignar and phoenix ( because deltaHF is kinda AWOL ) are sharing any administrative tasks.
It looks more like "were sharing" to me at the moment.
Anyway, a project can't be considered dead as long as people who post fixes (http://forum.amule.org/index.php?topic=15054.0) get a reaction... ::)
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Upon me retiring, Xaignar and phoenix ( because deltaHF is kinda AWOL ) are sharing any administrative tasks.
It looks more like "were sharing" to me at the moment.
Second that
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Real life. Everyone has one.