(2016-03-19, 20:30)mistergreen Wrote: So, Memphiz, I don't know who you are
The osx/ios maintainer of Kodi
(2016-03-19, 20:30)mistergreen Wrote: or where what you had me download fits into the kodi family-tree.
What i wanted you to download is called a test build. We use those for verifying if a bugfix really fixes a problem a user reported.
(2016-03-19, 20:30)mistergreen Wrote: What did you do, and is the fix something that will just show up in regular releases?
Due to the positive feedback for the fix it will show up in 16.1 (if its not to late for that) or 16.2 and of course in nightlies for 17.0 once the bugfix was approved/merged into the mainline code.
(2016-03-19, 20:30)mistergreen Wrote: I never seem to be able to know when to update, and just updating to "stable" obviously isn't foolproof..?
Well - thats the problem with the OSX Community for Kodi. Team Kodi puts a big amount of time into publishing Alpha, Beta and Release Candidate Releases of any upcoming stable releases and also promotes them heavily on
http://kodi.tv. The purpose of doing Beta and RC releases is to give users a chance to test it and report bugs before the final / stable version is released. The OSX community regulary fails to make use of this opportunity but keeps downloading only the "so called" stable releases. But our releases are not "stable" per definition.
They are a state where either the community stops reporting serious bugs or when the team thinks "this bugfixing will go on forever - lets release the shit". So its not a stable release - its more of a final release.
Long story short. You have the right to complain about bugs in final releases. But it is not right because you have the chance to test and report bugs before the release happens. Its not that i am able to fix everything that gets reported. But maybe 1 out of 10 issues.
thx for reading.