-minus the negativity-
Spend more time testing and debugging before spending time cleaning up forum posts. What gives? Why are MINOR issues that should have been tested popping up? The general look of unprofessional behavior and programming techniques stands out more than the work that was done.
Devs,
Not sure if my perspective is dead-on, but here goes:
I'm getting the impression that you all are coding and implementing - but purely from a programmer's perspective.
Please consider that the vast majority of people who will install and use this wallet are *NOT* coders. None of us should be expected to (and probably many can't) kludge their way around shortcomings in the interface or function of same.
General analogy - automobile drivers shouldn't have to know how to build their vehicles or conduct major repairs on their newly purchased vehicles. Automobiles are pretty much turn-key and come with fairly adequate documentation of their features and options (not so much lessons how to drive, but where to find the fuses and how to use the satnav).
In the same way, simple users of your software should not have to know linux, c+, python, or whatever. We shouldn't have to understand programming/coding related jargon or anything else. We shouldn't have to JFGI anything in order to work around things like locked wallets or determine what a feature (such as alias) actually is.
Sometime between now and 0.1.6 - please spend some time testing to make sure things aren't neglected (not able to unlock wallet when creating an alias via the menu), invest a bit of time creating some clear documentation written in complete sentences with a minimum of jargon, and be sure that documentation includes plenty of explanation of what each feature is and does before explaining the HOW.
Agreed but thats what an RC is for. The quirks will be fixed soon.. As you know software is a complicated beast with multi variables input and output.. its good to get out a working package and then iron out issues as a bigger userbase uses and finds them. As a long term professional developer im surprised there arent more bugs.. in the workforce you can expect dozens of new bugs on RCs off the bat so to me the quality is good and
is improving. This is a technical field so its not going to get all sparkly clean and super intuitive all of a sudden.. takes a few iterations to get there. Those who so not see the forest through the trees do not habe experience in the field of r&d to know any better. Those that do well you will see inherint value in what has beem given to you and can extrapolate on possibilities to come which are practically endless.