Wedge

Knowing as I do what happened of the forks of YaBBSE, of SuperMod and especially ttForum, I'm not especially surprised of the general reaction to forks.

The difference is that we're still respecting the terms of the licence (unlike ttForum, which just did a copy/paste of every mention of YaBBSE name and copyrights) and we aren't just grabbing a bunch of mods and shoving them in (unlike SuperMod, we're implementing features ourselves from fresh)

You're right that change comess slowly, but how long does it take? Wedge is almost one year old, is that not enough time for example? It's like a standing joke about the old national railway here in the UK, showed reputation for punctuality wasn't the very best, so much so that they acknowledged it by changing their slogan to "We're getting there." with the intimation that they had every intention of improvement but never managed to deliver.

I'd love to see SMF adopt a stable development cycle and start on the long road back to being nearer the top of the list than the bottom, but it needs to show some signs of change, right now it looks[1] as though development has mostly stagnated, the last commit that's referenced on Mantis is a month ago, and there isn't any indication of what 2.1 will look like. We've indicated where we're going, as has MyBB with 2.0, as well as XenForo's forthcoming 1.1, but I think SMF needs to step up and do the same.

1.	I am aware that there IS progress. But to an outsider, this is how it looks.

I am given to understand that the plan is to move it onto Git in the future, but other things (outside of development, real life things) are in the way. Not so much that the people with the power are against the idea, merely that they haven't yet made it happen. But honestly, it's not a big job to convert, the entire thing can be basically automated.Yup. I'd say that there are more private reports that aren't security related than that are.

+1 to the rest.

That's the thing, it never really struck me as weird; your English is better than that of most people I know, as it happens.Score one for irony ;)

I say, what's that, old bean? :D

You forget, though, I'm firmly British and I regularly talk to Americans - and do find myself dealing with the accent barrier and more generally the language barrier. It's not a high barrier but it is a barrier nonetheless.[1]

But for true accent win, get a Brit, an American and a Canadian on the same conference call. ;)

1.	That pretty much proves I'm English. I have yet to see an American use 'nonetheless' and not mean it in a parody of Englishness, or otherwise trying to impress.

UK or US English, out of interest?

Yes, very true, I was just trying not to lose my temper a bit.

I got a little confused.

Post 1 is the parent of posts 2 and 3, and 3 is the parent of post 4, what happens if 1 and 2 are merged? They were posted in order by number, but your example seemed to put the 3/4 chain higher up in importance than 1/2.