WTH are add-ons kept up to date so bad?

sender · August 20, 2020, 5:06am

Sorry for all the hard working people

But I have to ask… zigbee, zwave, nodered, glances, influx, etc. All very pleasant addons… but sometimes very far behing the actual versions available.

WTH is that so!? ()

frits1980 · August 20, 2020, 5:12am

I see this with almost every platform which has their own add-on system. It’s dependent on the developers of those add-ons. I have a QNAP NAS from which plug-ins are always far behind the latest stable release of the software. That is the price to pay for not using and maintaining your own add-ons.

frenck · August 20, 2020, 5:31am

For the community add-ons, I general try sticking with a monthly cycle. Which IMHO is a fair?

frits1980 · August 20, 2020, 5:50am

A month is more then fair if you ask me. But, I’m not the one who started this topic

sender · August 20, 2020, 6:31am

Fair enough, but for some addons it is very important to be up to date (openzwave e.g.)

frenck · August 20, 2020, 6:47am

OpenZwave = up 2 date.
It even runs a version that is officially not even released by the OpenZWave project yet.