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Re:Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need... by sportslife on Monday September 26, 2022 @07:42PM (#32990072)
How do you think users would react to a monthly no-changes-required update?
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Re:Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need... by vlunkr on Monday September 26, 2022 @07:53PM (#32990161)
Sounds like they consider the software to be complete. I that case an update provides no value.
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Re:Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need... by sportslife on Monday September 26, 2022 @11:23PM (#32991250)
An update provides no value except as a signal to users that the developer hasn't killed the project. I was wondering how annoyed or reassured users would be if they saw version x.x.x+1 with release notes noting no changes.
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Re:Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need... by jraph on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @01:29AM (#32991808)
Please don't. A sentence like "I'm still around, don't have anything to release for now because the library is feature-complete and no bug has been found for a while" would be better.
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Re:Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need... by vlunkr on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @01:40PM (#32998541)
If you have some kind of security review process for dependency updates, then this is annoying.
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