Jake wrote:
> Tim Nikias v2.0 wrote:
> 
>>Don't ask. Just wait.
> 
> 
> Yeah, thought as much. It just seems that other open-source projects (eg.
> Mozilla) seem to do a better job at keeping the community posted on
> progress. This may be due to the fact that there are more people working on
> that and so significant progress is made in regular intervalls.

Oh, this once again has potential for a very long thread without any 
useful result...

I'd suggest you simply realize that POV-Ray is not like any other open 
source project.  This is off-topic but i am writing this answer on a 
mozilla version which is crashing quite often and even if you don't 
share this opinion many people like to have a reliable and well tested 
program instead of one up-to-date but buggy beta version after the 
other.  So much for the 'significant progress in regular intervalls'.

Keeping the community posted on progress is something different but you 
should notice that the next version is a bugfix release so there are no 
new features and therefore nothing to talk about.

When it comes to planning and adding new features this is different but 
most new features introduced in the past few years started as unofficial 
patches and where developed with quite intensive interaction with the 
user community.

Christoph

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