JFW listers, please excuse my ignorance, but I am a bit confused! Yes,
even more than usual! Is the a JFW version 3.3, a version 3.31, a version
3.31.31 and now, a version 3.31.35 Release Candidate 2???
What in the hell is going on? Why is HJ putting up program versions full
of problems and bugs for us to find for them. Doesn't HJ have competent
enough people to find their programming problems an bugs? If we are going
to do their work for them, then, it seems as if some of us should be hired
as paid beta testers.
Do not misunderstand. I am very reluctant to criticize HJ because I am
deeply appreciative of their work and am a genuine admirer of Ted Henter
and what he has accomplished. However, releasing a program, even as a
"release candidate" prematurely, with the objective of letting us find the
problems and bugs, is a highly questionable practice. I suggest that they
establish a "representative" group of typical users as paid beta testers,
send them the release candidates, and then, after the problems and bugs are
worked out, HJ can put it up for the rest of us to download and/or they can
ship them out to us as officially released upgrades or new versions. I
realize that even then we will probably find a few small problems, but the
current approach is only creating chaos, giving them a poor reputation, and
confusing many users.
Ron Milliman
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