The Solution
1. Create Proper Deadlines
It's time to ditch this "It's done when it's done" crap and move to a proper release schedule. Proper realistic deadlines need to be created, and the whole team should work reaching that deadline. No more "it should be done in 3 weeks" or anything like that, we need actual dates. The "It's done when it's done" mentality simply doesn't provide any motivation to complete releases on time.
2. Bi-Weekly Updates
Currently the only time we get real updates is when we constantly have to ask for them, or when shit hits the fan. That should not be the case, we shouldn't have to ask for updates as I've mentioned before, they should be provided in a timely manner. I suggest that GreXX provides the community with 2 weekly updates, covering everything that the team has done since the previous update. I suggest the updates take place on a Wednesday and Saturday each week.
3. External Communications Auditor
Frankly, at the moment we can't trust the word of any member of the team, therefore I suggest that we nominate a member of the community, one that is not currently on the Crypti Team, to view and participate in the internal communications channel between the Crypti Team members. The member of the community would then report back to community to verify the bi-weekly updates or to answer questions that need verification.
4. Open Testing Cycles
At the moment all testing of new Crypti releases, are being done internally, and at the moment terribly. I suggest that the Crypti Team make testing cycles open to anyone that would like to participate. The advantage of this, is that new releases are being tested across a wider variety of platforms and will be more conducive to bug finding than internal testing. The way this would be carried out, would be with BETA releases, which would be released normally, however only those who want to help with testing would download and use it. Errors could then be logged into a special BETA Repository on GitHub. None of the source code needs to lie there, the repository simply needs to exist so that issues can be logged. (The whole process should be carried out similar to the way OpenBazaar is going about their BETA releases.)
Well fellow community members, what do you think?
I agree. I personally just want to know what we're doing right now.
Several months has passed by, little to no progress has been made.. we all like the developers attitude here when they do speak, but it's not about that.
It's about the technology, the progress, the continued progress. If we want to become serious, something has to change. We're past the point of talking.. The last three or four weeks has always had something in store, but nothing has been delivered. And that pattern just repeats itself over and over, so there comes a time when you have little hope there'll be something new in several weeks from here too because history tells a different story.
We've had the temporary solution up and running well over a month now and there's nothing new to speak of, this isn't a personal attack, it's reality.
It's good many spoke up here now, but as much as I like the sophisticated guys of the team.. we've heard all of this before.
I guess people, and rightfully so, just wonder, what will be different now? Can we do something about this?
I personally won't be listening to too many words that don't address the issues at hand head on.
It's time we not only have a discussion of these reocurring problems but we actually fix them. This sounds like a good solution to close the gap between community and foundation.
It's been like this for too long, and I think everyone here whether they want to voice it or not is slightly frustrated, first they get dumped on, then most of the community leaves, then those who are left have not a single clue what's being done, or when things are going to be finished.
Ofcourse when it is like this, people like myself lose my cool sometimes and negativity is more present than positivity, but I'm not going to apologize for it this time because we've been down the road on this subject so many times I've lost count, so it's time to actually do something about it now...