I have daily backups and hourly zfs snapshot. The problem is that, because nobody used the useless survey plugin, I have no idea when it broke. It could have been yesterday or it could have been 4 months ago
I wrote signups but I meant survey (in another comment I wrote "I would have never checked the useless survey")
I'm not arguing that my procedure is right (it is not), I'm arguing that nextcloud rushed the release in an incredibly unprofessional way.
When it's the last time that Canonical, in the hurry to release Ubuntu xx.yy broke snapd without?
When it's the last time that Apple, in the hurry to release iOS xx, made it totally incompatible with iMovie and had no timeline on when it would be fixed?
When it's the last time that Microsoft pushed a Windows update that disabled Microsoft office and left it unfixed for months?
Nextcloud decided to take care of the forms app. They decided to promote it as a selling point. They decided when to release the update. They decided to still push the update even if their own form app didn't get any new release in 4 months and isn't compatible.
They aren't contractually obligated to release a new, indistinguishable version (except some new bits that make it incompatible) every quarter.
Not ready? Delay one week. Still not ready? Delay an additional week. It came out that it needs a complete rewrite and it will take months? Write a note in the blog saying that feature is no more a selling point but now it is deprecated/unmaintained/unsupported and it will be automatically disabled without confirmation.
As someone said, a good app is only late until it ships, a bad app is bad until it's patched. Why being perpetually bad with updates that nobody is asking?
it's better than i expected, I assumed it was a sweatshop situation reading comments from smaller authors like the one of "emmy the robot" that had to stop because they didn't share the ad revenue anymore
the upgrade command is sent manually, it's not automated and it's not unattended. It would have made ZERO difference if i tagged 29 and then in test tagged 30. The upgrade would have not failed, it would have given ZERO warnings, I would have seen that everything worked as expected (because who tests the useless survey that is filled once a semester?) and I would have pushed the update to production.
I'd be shocked if it was a percentage higher than 10%
Yes, not only for this. I have two in my reading list that have the ending permanently locked after completion, the change is recent
Of course, the minimum package is 52 coins which isn't divisible by 3, 5 or 7 (pricing is variable according to the series)
A note: I'm fine with paying, if it was known from the beginning. But bait&switch enrages me.
Exactly, they have a release schedule, why their own plugin, that they're heavily promoting as a feature, isn't following that? If for some reason the forms app isn't ready for that date, why not postponing the launch instead of having it broken for who know how many months?
It's not a plugin made by someone else in their free time. They knew that by updating to NC 30 that feature that was marketed just 6 months ago would be disabled, so at least have the decency to write it in the release notes. I subscribe to the newsletter and the RSS for what, just enjoy the marketing buzzwords?
It's like if Microsoft releases an operating system with a buggy and broken taskbar because of a rushed self imposed deadline and fixes it one year later.
Us too, we only use it as a filelink provider for thunderbird and to host a useless survey that's going to get filled once a quarter. That's why nobody noticed the survey was disabled and that's why we're not doing multistage testing in multiple virtual machines. We are a super small company and ok with something that one day can be 3 days offline. Otherwise it would be cheaper to pay $100 to Surveymonkey and $100 to Dropbox