by jin_xi » Thu Jan 29, 2015 08:52
so, even though there has not been much discussion in this thread some things have been said on IRC. Some do not want to read a mailing list in addition to what channels already exist for mt, and everybody does not want to receive additional emails, which is understanable.
However, communication in this project is suboptimal, and again, i think its hindering progress and introducing friction:
Recently some dispute about whether its legit to ignore core devs on irc has come up. Its officially legit (which is good as mt-dev sucks and logs are kept forever). Some discussion about proceeding with versioning scheme here and there and stuff about which bugs to fix for the next bugfix release.
None of this has been done in a way that all who have to say something on the matter could do so in a timely manner, or be sure that what they said reached whoever needs to be aware. None of the points discussed have been solidified in form of some conclusion or plan.
So expect another shitty release, more dispute / developer exodus about very pointless issues, no movement whatsoever in some of the oldest bugs we might as well call features at this point, no direction to ever release with a different subgame than the good old mt_game apart from some vague plan.