Release Schedules and Feedback on Fixes

[jda]

>Is there any hope that Paradigma starts branching Valentina 
>releases? With 2.6 perceived as a strong base, it may be the right 
>time to consider seriously the introduction of branching into 
>Valentina's development process.
>
>This relentless push forward by mixing bug fixes and implementing 
>new features (introducing new bugs and breaking working code in the 
>process) may be leaving some, and I suspect mot so few, users 
>behind, some even abandoning Valentina altogether. Each time I try 
>to keep up with the new releases of Valentina, I feel like I am in a 
>rat race, spending more time dealing with Valentina than my products 
>since, at least in my case, I need to sync Valentina on at least 4-5 
>computers.
>

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I second this. With every incremental update of Valentina things that 
used to work break. At this point I'm upgrading hoping that existing 
bugs are fixed, but inevitably I find new ones.

I'm looking forward to a release that is truly stable. As I said 
before, problems with Valentina account for at least 80% of the 
issues my users complain about (probably more -- already 3 bug 
reports this morning about a problem with varchar fields created on 
Mac PPC but now running on Intel returning "Chinese" -- no doubt an 
endian issue). My life would be much, much easier if things just 
worked the way they are supposed to.

So I, too, would very much like to see a stable release we can count 
on, which would allows us to move forward cautiously with new 
releases that have new features.

Jon