Re: Search by sent private messages

That's what I have called for and that's what the Devs want to do... so we're on the same track here.

We're still months away from that, and I'll believe it when I see it, specifically because I do not have faith that the team collectively won't demand a 2.2 knowing full well the time it would take to actually build a complete rewrite, plus all the in-fighting about how it's different to what's been done before.

Arguing the hypothetical what-if is largely a waste of time. What if they had? What if all the crap in 2010 hadn't happened? What if... what if... what if we stop worrying about what might have been and concern ourselves solely with 'where we are right now and where we are going from here'?

Yes, if Spuds and Ema had finished it, it probably would have been finished last year, depending on how much time and effort was spent in bug testing and bug hunting.

Yes, I put in stuff that I genuinely believed at the time was necessary. Yes, I'm aware it extended dev time, but it was still on course for 3 years even with the feature set as it was a year ago. In all likelihood what I did has not significantly changed anything because if I hadn't put in those extra features, there's still the many, many bugs that needed fixing. But we'll ignore that little part of what I did, because all I did was ignore the feature lock, obviously. Then again it depends on whether you care about pushing out a well tested and decently bug-hunted solution or not. Maybe I just have higher standards I expect to see.

I also see that nothing I said back in February has been taken on board about why I can't work with this team, which I'm perfectly willing to accept as my fault. Most things are anyway. Most things I touch seem to end up worse for my interventions, why shouldn't this?

You forget: my entire platform for joining the team was NOT to work on 2.1 at all. I felt pressured by the team into working on 2.1 in the first place. But that's because I believed 2.1 was stable enough to be a base for rebuilding into 3.0 and it took me way too long to realise that simply wasn't the case.

And the fact that the moment 2.1 is done, it's effectively obsolete because there's never going to be anything more than maintenance. No extra features. Probably not even bug fixes for the most part, reverting back to standard policy. (Again something brought up by the 2.1 comments, as from what I saw of it, not positively received)

I truly wish you the best of luck at this point. You're going to need it.

* ‽ adds another board to the list of things to ignore, knowing that nothing he says is worth listening to here, so will avoid seeing topics, therefore no provocation to say anything. Everyone's a winner.