Re:Sublime Text 3 marked as recommended build
by SyneRyder on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @03:47AM
(#11805277)
I think the perception comes from people who aren't on the Dev release channel. When I saw you list 14 releases in 2016 alone (!?), I wondered where on earth you made up that number... until I realized that's the Dev channel. On the Stable channel, the releases have been:
2016: 2 versions
2015: 2 versions (one just a patch for the other)
2014: 1 version
2013: 12 versions
Re:Sublime Text 3 marked as recommended build
by falcolas on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @09:59AM
(#11806518)
Question: How frequent would you want the releases to be, considering that this is more-or-less a stable and finished project?
Re:Sublime Text 3 marked as recommended build
by SyneRyder on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @12:39PM
(#11807603)
I'm mostly okay with the occasional releases. Once a year feels a little infrequent though? One of the IDEs I use has a quarterly bugfix release schedule.
To be honest, I'm less concerned about new features, and more that there will be paid upgrades so the developers keep maintaining the software. I'd probably expect a new major version every 2 or 3 years, with a discounted upgrade price... that would still only work out to $10-$20/year for Sublime Text, which is crazy cheap. I already budget about $100/year just for annual Parallels Desktop upgrades.
ST3 dev releases[1]:
2016: 14 versions
2015: 25 versions
2014: 4 versions
2013: 40 versions
While pace really slowed down in 2014, there was at least occasional updates every few months fixing major issues.
I know people love to complain about ST's "slow development", but really don't understand where the perception comes from.
For me the experience has been the opposite: I sometimes get annoyed by updates every other week.
[1] https://www.sublimetext.com/3dev