Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2011.04.12 06:16:00 -
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Thanks for the update, CCP Sreegs. The new forums have many more problems besides the security flaws though. It's not your department, I know, but perhaps there's some way you can influence the release process so that QA and process stakeholders such as CSM can work together to control the release of non-security patches?
Of course, this involves upgrading CSM from "chicken" class stakeholders in the process to "pig" class stakeholders in the process. We're where the money comes from, after all.
A little change to the process so that Singularity always contains the next release candidate. This could work in CCPs favor to reduce the number of bugs that occur due to unintended interactions between a publicly tested feature and an internally tested bug fix.
From your dev blog, the insinuation is that the player who got banned didn't actually tell you how to reproduce the problem - is this the message you intended to present?
And for DTson gauur - according to the GPL, a developer only has to release the source code for software that they have given to the customer in some form. Thus if CCP had sold us forum software to put on our machines, or had sold us a box containing the forum software, we'd be entitled to the source code too. Since CCP haven't delivered us a software product (they're renting us a software service), the source availability is a non-issue.
I'm sure CCP will do the right thing and contribute changes back to the YAF codebase, where those changes apply to other users. I don't know what happens behind the scenes, but I can't think of many instances where one login can post as multiple different identities. It doesn't make sense in the greater world of forum software.
And for folks complaining about Akita T raving about the forums being stinking pile of dog excrement: remember what feedback CCP gave about Akita T's Technetium complaint? No you don't, because there wasn't any. I think it's pretty clear what Akita T is "messaging" by raving about the new forums at every opportunity.
But GPL and forum UX flaws are not the topic of this thread. The topic of this thread is how awesome CCP Sreeg's metaphorical beard is, and how certain security troll's beards are lacking in the non-neck department. Keep it up CCP.
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