[REBOL] Re: Opening a new blog about Rebol?
From: petr:krenzelok:seznam:cz at: 19-Nov-2007 10:46
> I am not sure. There were many promises from RT in the past already. And
> you know what happened... again and again..
> If they do not keep them now, Rebol will be just an inhouse project/tool
> for maybe QTask.
>
Interesting. I would nearly consider such opinion as total ignorance of
facts. Yes, RT might be slow at development, but look at Python ... what
was new in 2.5 version? What is going to be in 3.0 version? I regard it
being "cosmetic" upgrade in comparison to R3. Well, Python does not need
to change its architecture, because they have many things we lack. But -
R3 is total redesign. There is so many changes, that it is completly new
REBOL. What makes you think, that RT is doing all that design work to be
used for Qtask only? Well, in the past, we had no blogs. Nowadays, Carl
blogging or not, ppl are still disappointed. I would like to identify
the reason why. Maybe it is because development is mostly a closed
effort? Well, that could be it, ppl might feel excluded from
information. Carl knows it and imo that is why DevBase is currently in
heavy development - to allow full community release of R3, even in alpha
version.
So, instead of stating "again and again", could you suggest us, what
could be done to improve situation? Apart from Carl's blog, there is
Henrik blogging too, there is rebolweek, we try to inform REBOL friend
around with the status. Well, what I suggested was - let's set
milestones, release as-is, feature freezing. I think that it is our
nature to accept even limited capabilities, than to wait undefined amout
of time for new thingy to appear.
My belief is, that once DevBase is solid (and there is already tens of
small enhancements/fixes done and other in the pipeline, R3 will be
released. Once again, I don't speak for RT, it is just my observation ...
Petr
