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Will we get working crutches in dwarf mode soon, either in this release or the next?  It's one of the biggest bugs yet to be squashed, and it seems particularly tragic that after you went to the work of implementing this cool and useful feature something continues to keep it from actually working.

[Kogut]

It is not implemented. We have code for new skill, new item - but not for using it.

[Greiger]

Works fine in adventure mode.  Just doesn't work in dwarf mode.

[Untelligent]

Works in Dwarf Mode too. Just only in certain situations. Pretty sure I saw a dwarf walking around with a crutch once after he broke his leg.

[MrWiggles]

Will we get working crutches in dwarf mode soon, either in this release or the next?  It's one of the biggest bugs yet to be squashed, and it seems particularly tragic that after you went to the work of implementing this cool and useful feature something continues to keep it from actually working.

There going to be between 9-18 weeks of bug fixes after this release and the next one. So, probably soonishly.

[Dae]

Will we get working crutches in dwarf mode soon, either in this release or the next?  It's one of the biggest bugs yet to be squashed, and it seems particularly tragic that after you went to the work of implementing this cool and useful feature something continues to keep it from actually working.

There going to be between 9-18 weeks of bug fixes after this release and the next one. So, probably soonishly.

Did you get that quite vague number from a reliable source ?

[Willfor]

Did you get that quite vague number from a reliable source ?

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html

"Each release will be accompanied by a general bug-fixing period one to two weeks long where we'll be working on old issues from the bug tracker."

[Footkerchief]

Did you get that quite vague number from a reliable source ?

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html

"Each release will be accompanied by a general bug-fixing period one to two weeks long where we'll be working on old issues from the bug tracker."

That means there will be one to two weeks of bug-fixing after the next release, not 9-18 weeks of uninterrupted bug-fixing.

[NW_Kohaku]

I have trouble seeing how 1-2 weeks turns into 9-18 weeks, at that.  I hope there's a different source for that number.

Especially since 18 weeks is basically a third of a year.  Even if there are people clamoring for bugfixes with mounting frustration, I don't think the people who are waiting on what's on the devpage with baited breath will sit and quietly wait for four months to get some of the things they want, either. 

[Captain Mayday]

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html

9 Releases, with 1-2 weeks of bugfixing after each = 9-18 weeks of bugfixing in total.

[NW_Kohaku]

Ahhhhh.  So we're not talking about "9-18 weeks of bug fixing", we're talking about about 9-18 weeks of bugfixing over the course of the Caravan Arc's "short-term goal" implimentation of 9 short-term implimentation projects which will also undoubtably take some time to code, which may take 6 or more months to actually get around to completing.

... Suddenly, this seems to be a much slower devpage than I had previously thought.  I had hoped we would get stacking/wheelbarrows within a couple years, but if this is the expected rate of progress down that list, Adventure Mode will be taking up most of the rest of the decade, won't it?

[therahedwig]

Then let's hope the bug-squashing will be extremely effective.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

I don't think the two weeks of bugfixing will apply with the new, shorter, dev cycle. Toady has stated that there will be a big bugfixing push after the caravan arc.

[Knight Otu]

I don't think the two weeks of bugfixing will apply with the new, shorter, dev cycle.

It is part of that dev cycle as per the dev page. That said, I would expect that the 2-week bugfix periods will be the minority, reserved for particularly stubborn bugs, so that Toady can get more releases out rather than fewer.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

I thought the point of the new release cycle was just so we had something to play with, rather than waiting ages for a release?