Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Victor Stone <fourstones.net AT gmail.com>]

Final word on this - I've taken this thread to heart and have been
re-doubling my efforts on stability and documentation ("polish") for
the 5.1 release. I don't know how it fits with your scheduling but I'd
say, realistically, look for an RC of 5.1 around June 1.

Thanks,
VS

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Markus Petersen <markus AT mdev.dk> wrote:
> Thank you for your comments, all of you. We will consider what to do next.
>
> Regards,
> Markus
>
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Victor Stone <fourstones.net AT gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Markus Petersen <markus AT mdev.dk> wrote:
>>> You are, of course, right. The problem is that our time is constrained
>>> very much, and the newest release of ccHost seemed very easily
>>> breakable and not "polished". Suddenly it would stop working after
>>> just changing the configuration in the administration panel, or the
>>> uploads would fail without any further notices. We have not
>>> encountered any of this in 4.5. Normally we would submit a lot of bug
>>> reports, but in our case, it was just easier to revert to 4.5.
>>>
>>> I hope you are not offended by my words. But 4.5 is probably what we
>>> are going to continue working with. So to come back to my original
>>> question: is there documentation available for 4.5?
>>
>> The docs for 4.5 are here
>> http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/cchost/docs/
>>
>> for TODAY - but they could easily disappear as that part of the CC
>> servers are moved around and re-cast any minute.
>>
>> No one is offended here but I am a little confused - the ccHost 5.0
>> code has been up and operating on ccMixter for exactly a year (!) and
>> (trust me) the admin's bang on the admin/config screens a lot!
>>
>> I'm sorry to hear that you have encountered issues but I can not
>> encourage STRONGLY enough to just be a little more patient with 5.0
>> and just report the bugs to the database, or this list or just my
>> private email and I can bang them out. I would be shocked if they are
>> anything more than typos or missing 'require()' and other trivial
>> issues ("trivial" for me, frustrating and time consuming for you, I
>> understand).
>>
>> Heed this: Whatever short terms gains you think you are getting from
>> reverting to 4.5 will cost you in the long run as opposed to 5.x - I
>> know, I run a big, popular ccHost site ;)
>>
>> VS
>>
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