I understand the sentiment behind this response; but I do feel, if you're asking people to update via SVN, it's only fair to give them some clue what they're getting when they do. So you might want to get past the initial knee-jerk "how dare you criticize something that's free" reaction and at least give this some thought.

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org> wrote:

You can get a refund from the front desk.

Adam.

Sebastian Wiesinger <observium@ml.karotte.org> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm testing out Observium and I like a lot of the things that
>Observium does. But what really irks me is the way and style of
>releasing new versions and committing to the SVN repository.
>
>1) Commit messages. To quickly get a feel what changed between
>revisions I consult the svn log. That is the primary source of
>information. In the Observium SVN this often leads me to read things
>like this:
>
>r4147 - CODE, Y U NO LOOK RITE
>r4140 - Me need your soul, more souls. >:->
>r4139 - you're not ready for this. :)
>r4125 - disable whatever the fuck that is
>r4101 - add some crappy errors
>
>And on and on.

David Brodbeck

System Administrator, Linguistics

University of Washington