08.04.2019, 18:38
Well it's not like they are beta-testers with some superior contact. Regardless you don't know if that representative decided to go through both public and private channels.
Regardless, SA-MP is not a democracy, Kalcor is the one controlling everything. Auto-updater with yes/no and setting toggle was DENIED. And he's made it clear he wants everyone to migrate to a new version first, which you can only find out about through forums, nothing on the main release page. At least add 0.3 DL (you can also keep 0.3.7) to download page if you want people to migrate over. There was mention of 0.3 DL having potential unknown security vulnerabilities but who knows what they could be and Kalcor wants people to move over on their own already via the BIG servers.
At this point, I think it'd be best to open-source as Kalcor said he will at one point. Unless he meant when the mod is dead. Development would be much faster and people would probably move over from MTA to SAMP as SAMP has generally more players (aside from shitty BR clones, and racing), but worse scripting capabilities and is closed source. I'm not sure why he thinks everyone would start their own SAMP literal clone, when no one did for 0.2.5. The reality is marketing it would be impossible and gaining community trust to even install your client would not be easy. Then there's the maintaining of it at which point unless all those developers could work faster and better than anyone on SA-MP open development, it won't have absolutely anything better. Meaning no edge to have their own client, even if big server owners formed a team. There are some custom clients (Russian CRMP or some shit, UGRP) already which are only better because SAMP is not being developed to have some of their features like custom guns and whatever.
When 0.3DL was released, Kalcor said he will be merely skipping the 0.3.8 release and the next release will have more than downloading. 0.3DL was posted in a forum thread. It's been years and no next release has come, if Kalcor is not able to develop (understandably because it's one-man army) in a timely manner, it's time to open-source.
At the very least, 0.3.7 and 0.3DL shouldn't continue co-existing because it effectively divides a small community into two.
Regardless, SA-MP is not a democracy, Kalcor is the one controlling everything. Auto-updater with yes/no and setting toggle was DENIED. And he's made it clear he wants everyone to migrate to a new version first, which you can only find out about through forums, nothing on the main release page. At least add 0.3 DL (you can also keep 0.3.7) to download page if you want people to migrate over. There was mention of 0.3 DL having potential unknown security vulnerabilities but who knows what they could be and Kalcor wants people to move over on their own already via the BIG servers.
At this point, I think it'd be best to open-source as Kalcor said he will at one point. Unless he meant when the mod is dead. Development would be much faster and people would probably move over from MTA to SAMP as SAMP has generally more players (aside from shitty BR clones, and racing), but worse scripting capabilities and is closed source. I'm not sure why he thinks everyone would start their own SAMP literal clone, when no one did for 0.2.5. The reality is marketing it would be impossible and gaining community trust to even install your client would not be easy. Then there's the maintaining of it at which point unless all those developers could work faster and better than anyone on SA-MP open development, it won't have absolutely anything better. Meaning no edge to have their own client, even if big server owners formed a team. There are some custom clients (Russian CRMP or some shit, UGRP) already which are only better because SAMP is not being developed to have some of their features like custom guns and whatever.
When 0.3DL was released, Kalcor said he will be merely skipping the 0.3.8 release and the next release will have more than downloading. 0.3DL was posted in a forum thread. It's been years and no next release has come, if Kalcor is not able to develop (understandably because it's one-man army) in a timely manner, it's time to open-source.
At the very least, 0.3.7 and 0.3DL shouldn't continue co-existing because it effectively divides a small community into two.