Re: [Scid-users] Testing

[Steven <ste...@ya...>]

>If subscribers wish to have some emails from time to time, I could send my notes...
>I believe the current status of Scid is : Very Stable.

4.3 is quite stable, but Scid's git repository is *not* stable... It has a couple
of nice new features with non-trivial bugs, meaning a new release is not
practicle until/if they are fixed. Fulvio has added some interesting new code
for the best games widget which should probably be used to rewrite the
gamelist too before the next release *but this is a biggish task*. Gerds
new filter cache has lots of bugs, and AFAIK he does not even have git commit privilidges.


>Not much bugs reported.
>Steven crushes them as they come in.


Scid vs. PC surely has very few bugs now as i'm still working on it every other day
for the last few years. My early efforts were a bit raw, but latest release is very solid.


Since 4.8, it has a new Move Search feature and a better Twin Games Checker 

(which highlights missing comments and variations in duplicate games).4.8 had a bug that checking moves can't be added to the mask,
but i have fixed this in svn and also fixed the tree "Fill cache with game/base" feature ,
which is broken in both Scids since Fulvio's great interruptible tree feature got added.

>Wishes are mostly returned to requesters.
>We might not have a dev leader.
>My vote would go to Steven or Alex.
>Alexander seems quite busy.
>Steven seems uninterested.

I *am* interested in the state of mainline Scid (i appreciate the popularity of dockable
windows), but am not interested in debugging Fulvio and Gerds code. It is tough work, and 

something they should really be doing - or a new dev. Pascal cared about bugs
but he has not responded in years.


I've recently tried to contact Alex, Pascal and Joost to add me as a dev, but received no reply.
Perhaps they just ignore me which is fair enough, or perhaps they have switched off.
They have been very quiet for a while now.

Sorry to be so morose :), but I'd like some of the devs to propose how the bugs in svn will ever get fixed.

Steve