On Aug 15, 2011, at 3:28 AM, Ron Hunsinger wrote:

> Isn't the purpose of a beta to uncover bugs for you to track down? If a bug 
> is reported the day before the beta expires, do you really want to 
> self-impose a one-day time limit to track it down? Even if no one is running 
> that beta, all of its bugs are potentially still in the next version, but may 
> well manifest themselves differently, so sample data and steps-to-reproduce 
> and especially crash reports have to be applied against the version they were 
> reported with.

If you’re giving your testers betas that are expiring by the time they’re 
sending you reports, you’ve got the expiration date set *way* too early. By the 
time a beta expires, you should have sent them a newer build long ago.

Charles_______________________________________________

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