Hi Brent.

While obviously true, this is not that important. The BFAV is the least
problem of old (or any) bug reports or fixes. Even assuming we had TIM
(Tim's Incredible Machine), we wouldn't reach the old ones, because not
enough people are working on testing/reviewing.

There are therefore two things to do - get more help, or accept that old
stuff gets ignored. I realize this is a very annoying point to accept,
but that's the way it is, folks.

Daniel

Brent Vukmer <bvukmer at blackboard.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yes.  The BFAV sucks :).  However some significant 
> > improvement is in the
> > works, namely loading the entire list of posts in a very lightweight
> > way.
> > 
> > Tim's post was right on.  Filtering posts that people don't 
> > want to look
> > at, grouping related posts, and presenting those groups effectively --
> > that is what _really_ needs to get done.
> > 
> > I would welcome help with implementing the AI-engine/Bayesian-filter
> > juju that Tim alluded to. 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Work is mauling me right now, so I'm not making a lot of progress on the
> next release of the BFAV - but let me say again - the next BFAV release
> *will* show the list of all posts.  That should be a significant step
> forward.
> 
> One of my primary goals in creating the BFAV was to make it easier to do
> archaelogical digs for treasures hidden in the older parts of the
> archives.  I definitely do realize that the current BFAV does (imagine
> bold, caps, 34 point font here) *not* meet that goal.  
> 
> (OK, turn off the huge imaginary font)
> 
> I hope to get clear of the work-mauling soon and make some time for BFAV
> development.
> 
> Regards,
> Brent