> I'm a correspondence chess player and I use Scid about 1 to 2 hours > per day to analyse my games, so I really care about usability and > stability. But I do not really care too much how it is achieved, as > long as it works. At the moment I spend quite some time every day > working around the quirks of Scid (regular restarts to avoid crashes, > manual entering of variations, etc.). As I said before, I am really > happy Scid exists, but there is clear room for improvement. :)
Since I discovered ICC, I returned to chess. I am using Scid on Windows (work), on Linux (netbook) and on Mac (family) almost every day. My Linux installation is up and running for more than a month, now. I mainly search for, analyze, comment, and export games. I don't have crashes. But this is irrelevant. What is happening now is a putsch. This is not the first time Steven tries this. The speech acts are clear enough. *** In any case, I should grant that: > [I]f nobody is developing Scid anymore, does it really matter? Considering that: - Fulvio never was granted any admin rights more than access to a Git repository which Steven doesn't even seem to know about when he's bitching on Scid. - Alex never wanted the docked mode and in general never cared much for anything else than his own user case centered around the correspondence module. - Alex does not even acknowledge my emails anymore, so presumably will never give me any admin rights. what is happening right now is a fait accompli. Thank you, Alex. *** What is happening can be quite minimal: > Of course there has been a certain amount of divergence, but to me it does > not look like it would be impossible to merge them. Nothing is never impossible to merge. But this is not a theorical question. Ideally, Scid products should be federate. Which means Scid should be the minimal subset. And add-ons (e.g. FICS) should come as plugins. Nothing like this will ever happen. Steven stated his design goals not long ago. You can find them in the archives, among the snark and the smirks. In effect, Steven will do as he pleases, as Pascal did. Let's not wonder why the G+ Chess community talks about Scid's usability problems. *** I hope this explains why I believe that this put some perspective on: > I think that is also where Steve's proposal is coming from. and that > usually forks happen because of social or technical disagreements. I have witnessed the Kirkby-George escalation. I have witnessed Pascal's overpowering reign. And now this. The product of a miraculous evolution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
