mbonsack Wrote: > From a software development standpoint, then, SS is at extreme risk for > not making the Sept 18 deadline. The software should be in beta with > only 50 or so days left before release. Though I'm happy with 6.3.x and > not using 6.5, from the traffic in these forums it looks like there's > *no way* it's ready to enter beta, and a 60-day beta is the absolute > minimum I've seen to get a true quality release out the door -- both on > software I've worked on and that which I've purchased.
You can't throw random numbers like that around, they're entirely dependent on the software in question and the team building it. I used to work on an application many orders of magnitude larger and more complex than Slimserver and our entire release cycle was 6 weeks - essentially 3 weeks for dev and 3 for test & fix. Worked well for a number of years. On the other hand, some companies can spend a year or more in public beta and still produce a sub-par end result. Personally, I'm not at all concerned about 6.5 right now (not that it would matter if I were!). They've got a good solid few weeks of dev left, middle of august would be a good time to solidify the feature list and throw out anything not done or looking patchy, a week or so to tie up loose ends and then still 3+ weeks for a solid testing phase. With the level of interaction from tech savvy community members I'd be pretty confident of getting a good result. But I'm not the QA manager :) -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25771 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
