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Jerboa

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Jerboa is a native-android client for Lemmy, built using the native android framework, Jetpack Compose.

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Do we know when the next version will come out?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I can't answer the question directly, but I'll say there's been 3 updates in the last week, and I hear there's another ready to go that hasn't hit the app stores yet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Software development takes time and has many unanticipated challenges that makes time estimation difficult. When developers do provide estimates users, managers etc then get stroppy when they slip by.

Therefore the best strategy is just to ignore requests for time schedules because it's a no win situation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Software development takes time and has many unanticipated challenges that makes time estimation difficult. When developers do provide estimates users, managers etc then get stroppy when they slip by.

Therefore the best strategy is just to ignore requests for time schedules because it's a no win situation.

I think you might be confusing estimates and fixed-cadence releases. It's really simple to provide a promise of fixed-cadence releases - just take whatever changes are merged (if any) and release them on the cadence.

Promising to release a specific feature within a specified timeframe is a different beast entirely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Nothing about OP's question indicated they were interested to know if there was a regular release schedule. Specifically they asked for the next release, therefore I tried to explain why there may not be a simple answer to their question.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think releases are just whenever they're ready

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

AKA the best release schedule

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm tempted to try and setup a nightly build of jerboa. If there are changes merged into main I wanna use em

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Let me know if you do!