wkitty42 wrote in Fri Jan 10, 2020 2:57 pm:i don't understand how folks can think a project is dead just because there's no updates in a few months or a year... that's crazy...
I think he is right, when a software has not been updated for more 6 months (which is already a long period of time) then most of the people will think that there is a problem in the developers team (lack of motivation, of time).
Software need to updated for several reasons :
- maintenance (a change of API in the libraries like openscenegraph --> the source code of flightgear and simgear must be updated, in order to ensure that the source code can always compile with the latest release versions of the libraries,
it's very important for packagers of linux distros, especially rolling release distros as archlinux and gentoo, if a software can not be compiled with latest release libraries version then it will be removed from the official repository of the distro, that's why flightgear is not available on official repo of archlinux since 2 years, except the non official AUR repo
),
- correction of bugs reported by the users
- a security flaw in the source code
- new features, better performance
It's ok to wait 6 or 12 months for new features, but for the other updates (basic maintenance, correction of bugs) a time period of 3 months is better.