On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 20:41, Justin Catterall 100621.1@masonsmusic.co.uk wrote:
It seems that many many people have jumped on the TM2 alpha. The consequence of this is that there has been a rush of TM2 questions, some of which ignore Allan's request not to post general feedback, some of which would be answered if the poster would read the message on textmate-dev Allan linked in a post yesterday, some of which would be answered in the blog or release notes.
I don't think I've seen a question yet that, bearing in mind this is *alpha* software, is sensible to post or meets the criteria of being what the devs want to know about.
Would the powers that be consider a new mailing list? "TM2 testers" (or similar) so that the "TM users" list can concentrate on issues, or queries users have with only the current release of TM. This would naturally migrate once TM2 is released to the world.
Maybe also a message in the ChangeLog or this list that reminds people how to file bugs:
http://wiki.macromates.com/Main/BugReporting http://ticket.macromates.com/
The alpha release didn't mention any request for bugs. However, I assume Allan and co wouldn't mind reports along the lines of "I tried X but it did Y rather than Z then crashed". I'm not sure they are looking for too many "I preferred the way TM1 did X" right now.
Dean