Yeah, the devs test the changes for at least 24 hours on their server to make sure it works so it won't crash for everyone since what we have now is better than nothing at all. And then they upload to CVS which only gets dumped every week or so. The process is about as efficient as it can be while still ensuring a good margin of safety against releasing bad code. And this process gets harder because a lot of the devs, like Scorp2k, run custom servers so the code changes they make and test then have to be extracted from their custom code and merged with the standard code and then tested more to make sure the merge didn't cause problems, so its understandable that new code takes a while to get finalised and put out.
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