No! I much prefer HJ's current practice for beta testing. This practice is
a commonly used one among many companies, allowing any of their registered
users who wish to do so to participate in the comment/testing phase. This
way we do have input, any of us who choose to. We who test their products
are fully aware that we may be installing an unstable program; we don't go
into this unaware.
As an instructor at the Colorado Center for the Blind, I know that my
students enjoy playing with the new modifications, to see what works and
what does not. We sent in a few messages for this last release, and were
pleased to receive replies. It's nice to know that our suggestions count
for something.
If you are uncomfortable installing software on your computer which may have
flaws, don't do it! Wait until the official release, where you can be
certain that most of the kinks have been ironed out.
Nancy Feldman, Technology Instructor
Colorado Center for the Blind
> 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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