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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message
news:p61uetc27fg7opir90ti5ea3skc73ec63o@4ax.com...
> I think Chris is right. It will be challenging to disclaim an unofficial
> update in a way that nobody will get upset later. When we do officialize
> the pieces, there will be orientation changes, and different part numbers
> with no forwarding addresses. Models built on unofficial parts are likely
> to break.
>
> There's also the issue of being able to later clean up the pollution from
> an unofficial update. It would be easy to enough for people to use their
> Windows Find to locate files containing the word 'unofficial', and delete
> those files, but that would imply that we reviewed all the files before
> releasing them, to make sure they all have the "unofficial element" line.
> And reviewing all the files before an official release is something we're
> trying to avoid, right?
I think I see it now. As far as broken models go, we don't want that. I have
had a couple of those, and that's frustrating.
I got your message in this group about the news item, I'm working on that right
now. I think it might be good to make an official statement about the parts on
the site as well - so what exactly will we do?
You wrote in another message:
> I think I can use my part-voting-preparation utilities to generate a
> webpage like the ones we use for voting. So people could check out what
> the unofficial parts are, and either download them all in one shot, or just
> grab what they want.
>
> Steve
Isn't this the same thing as releasing an unofficial update? I know people want
parts, and something needs to be done.
I went back into the emails I have and read your latest message about the Parts
Tracker progress and Dan's comments you pasted. You recently mentioned he is
busy - Dan (or Steve if you know), when do you think is a reasonable timeframe
to get a testable version up on the server? When do you think is a reasonable
timeframe to get the official parts release out?
I think that we need to make a final decision about the parts update and
announce it - and assure the users that it is being worked on. To me that means
in a separate thread, possibly to .announce, and posted on the site.
Tonight I'll keep churning on the SSI for the site, and throw together some news
to put up.
-Tim
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