ingo <ing### [at] homenl> wrote in news:Xns### [at] povrayorg:

> in news:Xns### [at] 204213191226 Coridon Henshaw wrote:

>> Needlessly make the beta too unreliable or too annoying to use and
>> people will get fed up and quit testing it.
 
>> Would that be a good thing?
 
> YES, it would stop all these pathetic whiners stop whining, I hope....

Then why bother with a public beta at all?  Keep the entire project private 
and you won't have any 'pathetic whiners' (aka: users) to get under your 
feet.

> One would realy expect that raytracing would have learned people some 
> patience, but it seems to be the opposite.

There is a difference between having to wait for a render that's slow 
because its complicated and having to leap through hoops because of some 
drop dead logic that's needlessly annoying and needlessly agressive given 
the simple fact that volunteers can't reasonably be expected to follow 
strict release timetables.

The problem is not that RC3 is late but rather that RC2 has no built in 
safety margin to cope with a late replacement.

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