[GNC] GnuCash getting worse?

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 12/28/2023 3:56 AM, G R Hewitt wrote:
> My two pennyworth is similar.

My two cents is a little different.

Also a retired pro, a very senior sort of systems analyst who toward the 
end mainly handling what had the department programmers stumped or was 
beyond them in the first place.

This is a CHOICE. Do you immediately upgrade to the newest version or do 
you wait long enough for the new version bugs to be found and corrected? 
Do you like being on the "bleeding edge" or not? Do you NEED some 
feature that has been added with the new version?

With a full testing protocol, a new version would spend some tine in 
"beta" with only designated "beta testers" using it (experienced users 
who would report bugs to the development team, people able to identify 
actual bugs from things that simply might require explanation what some 
new feature does and doesn't do). This project does NOT have a large 
enough "testing budget", nothing like what I used to have available to 
me (around 20% of the total new system budget). Lack of a user/tester 
base is why I am not helping with development.

So I'll put it plainly. If you don't need a new feature of a new 
version, and if you dislike being an involuntary beta tester (during 
this initial unofficial beta period) then wait a little while before 
upgrading. Monitor this list for the complaints about the new version 
and upgrade only when these have died down. Skip ever upgrading to 
versions that were particularly buggy. Yes, you will likely always be 
one or two versions behind the newest, but you won't be complaining.

Michael D Novack