Release Schedules and Feedback on Fixes

[Keith DeLong]

And all of these issues have kept at least one very long time Valentina
developer on version 1.11. The need for a reliable Universal Binary
compatible database is forcing some very unpleasant decisions.

Keith DeLong

>> 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.
>> 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 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