Al Sutton wrote: > I'm sorry, but if you keep saying there wasn't time to do things
There is never time to do everything. hackbod addressed this in her message. > you have an update released within days of the release date First, technically, T-Mobile had an update released within days of the release date. Was there ever a definitive list of changes published? Second, by your argument, you would prefer bugs not be found, and certainly not fixed. On any software development project the size of Android -- open source or not -- QA is a fairly continuous exercise, and bugs are found at times that bear little on release dates. Finding bugs shortly after release is par for the course. Timetables and processes for fixing them vary by firm and type of bug, but some may get addressed rather quickly. It happens to everyone. Now, if you want to go on a rant about how they should build software like they build bridges, that's fine. > and someone > discovering a reasonably serious security flaw within days of the source > code being available See above. QA and security testing is never ever "done", and so flaws will be found when they're found, regardless of when stuff is released. Do you really want them to *not* do continuous testing, or *not* fix flaws? > it does paint a picture of a 0.9 beta product set > into the wild, not a 1.0 release. To you, perhaps. In what way does anything you've listed here go against what other titans of the OS industry (e.g., Microsoft, Apple) or major open source projects (e.g., Mozilla, Linux distros) do? -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com Android Training on the Ranch! -- Mar 16-20, 2009 http://www.bignerdranch.com/schedule.shtml --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
