Blank panel.

[adrianxw]

At the upper right of the display, underneath the "Learn News Help" points, there is a rectangular space which USED to show me some stat type things and link to my team. For some time, the panel is blank apart from the word "Loading..." - it never loads.

[muziqaz]

Servers are now tweaked to V8 API, so some things are no longer working on v7. I'm sure over time there will be more things which break

[adrianxw]

Ah, progress, don't you just love it.....

[arisu]

You can just upgrade to v8, of course.

[toTOW]

v7 is still working well with Advanced Control and HFM ... no one used Web Control with this client.

[BobWilliams757]

v7 is still working well with Advanced Control and HFM ... no one used Web Control with this client.

I used web control so little I was trying to figure out what the OP was even talking about. I'm not opposed to progress, but let's just say the lack of bugs in 7.6.xx and HFM is keeping me from a lot of little issues being worked out on the beta... errrr.... I mean public V8.whatever versions.

[arisu]

I do wish they just open sourced 7.6.xx instead, since 7.x. is amazingly buggy. I have half a dozen patches on my own local copy to fix things, but seeing the lack of activity on the GitHub discourages me from making an account to make a PR. Especially when there are so many open bugs that are simply ignored and important QoL features that are dismissed out of hand. I get that the dev is a busy guy and there's only so much one person managing multiple projects can do, but at some point there needs to be a big fat "this is almost unmaintained, we're looking for another dev to help!" banner put somewhere.

[calxalot]

I’m sure v7 is not going to be open sourced.

PRs for v8 do get accepted.
There are discussions where you can try to convince Joseph something should change.
You can remain anonymous if you like and still contribute.

Lack of activity is due to vacations and work that is not being committed to a public branch.

I don’t think funding is available for another dev.

[arisu]

Looking for a volunteer dev wouldn't hurt.

I didn't know about the vacations. I just saw slow development and lots of known bugs not being dealt with so I assumed he was very busy with other projects. I know he also develops the server software which I'm sure is time consuming for him too.

I guess I'm just a bit jaded at how buggy it is when a lot of the bugs were a very easy fix. I guess I'll have to make a PR for some of my fixes some time. I keep saying I'll do it but I haven't yet, so maybe now is the time.

[calxalot]

It seems to me there are more serious bugs that get the attention. Fixes for easy things are welcome.

There are at least 4 volunteers, not counting you. I don’t know how to attract a reasonable number more. Seems like everyone wants to get paid.

[arisu]

Many of the bugs are related to the cores. I'd volunteer without getting paid if the cores were also open source, but it's very frustrating to have hacky workarounds in the client for problems with the core (such as how it abuses exit code 127 to mean WU_STALLED when that is also the code the linker returns when a shared library could not be found, or how it doesn't do proper checks on xvg files after crashes, or proper checking of nvidiactl/kfd stall behavior during suspend). Relatively simple but unfixed bugs in the cores have caused countless WUs to be lost. There's only so much the client can do.

There are even bugs and minor performance issues I've had to fix by using LD_PRELOAD tricks, which is a royal pain without access to source code or even permission to do black box reverse engineering.