Hi McNeel,
While you are all here talking deep into the weeds of readiness, I just wanted to remind you all that for many of us the WIP is not even ready to be used as a WIP, let alone even start thinking about a beta, or a release candidate.
The current WIP cycle has been mostly a series of alpha builds, since we still have not had the possibility to bring in our tools and workspaces easily, reliably, without confusion. And all we hear here are issues about lost toolbars and frequent crashes. In my mind, we still haven’t had a single version of a WIP to be able to truly work with, in the way we have worked with WIPs in prior release cycles.
I really hope this never happens again after this version is finally out and usable as a WIP for expert users with custom tools.
I also hope you take crashes and stability as seriously as it was taken in the past. In the few instances that I did try WIP features I experienced more crashes that I expect when working with Rhino. That’s not acceptable. Rhino should not crash more than once every other month for someone working with it daily.
What are your current crash rates? Are you monitoring them? Is it just me or they are much higher than your historical average? (Even for a WIP)
Thanks,
G