Greetings,
I’m so sorry I haven’t been around; my family and I took a bit more than a week off for Christmas, and while I kept tabs on emails coming in for the Tender and Lighthouse lists, I completely spaced on checking the forum.
I usually at least pay attention to the topics, although I very rarely respond.
I once worked out how many folks would need to contribute per year to make me able to work on JBidwatcher full-time, and after a hearty (albeit slightly sad) laugh, I went back to getting work done for my day job.
I don’t push the donation thing much, mostly because I’m terrified that I’ll lose my day job (they love me, but the overall company’s not doing well) and I’ll have to ask the JBidwatcher community for help again like I did in 2009. I hated to do that, and I know my stewardship has been poor of late, but going to the well too many times beforehand would make it even worse.
Time is the most precious commodity I’m lacking, honestly. Figuring out what’s wrong at any given point is a painful dance. For instance recently there was a bug where it only manifested for folks using the non-US site primarily (i.e. ebay.co.uk) to bid on items that were denominated in EUR, that came about because I was recognizing the ‘approximately’ string as the actual price, and it would overwrite the ‘correct’ currency with the converted (GBP) currency. Drilling in and understanding exactly what went wrong was a many hour thing where an interruption would set me back a half hour or more, and I don’t have a lot of many-hour blocks of time available.
That said, 1-3,6 are fixed in the current source base, I believe. 4 and 5 are…fuzzy bugs, unfortunately. I haven’t been able to understand exactly why it happens.
IIRC, this ticket has the most recent download links for the binaries that should fix a number of the problems.
Thank you for thinking of me this Christmas; I hope you all had a wonderfully merry one, and that you have a very happy new year!
— Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!