At one time, after the formalized Beta testing by professionals, often software was released to the general public still labeled as “Beta” for the first while.
This had several benefits: 1. The wider “public” group, using a much wider assortment of software, hardware, and personal configurations, would discover the needs for additional tweaks to be included in updates prior to removing the “Beta” designation. 2. It would establish expectations of the users. The users would realize that they are utilizing a very early version and that some glitches are bound to be discovered and corrected. 3. It would serve as a warning to less-experienced users that they may want to wait awhile until the remaining kinks were ironed out. On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 12:48 PM, John B. Lisle <leg...@tqsi.com> wrote: C G, Let me say something at the outset what may be uncomfortable to hear, L8 was released with fewer known bugs than L7.0 had when it was released and that L7.5 has now. This is just a numerical fact from the bug tracking system. We are just accustomed to the bugs in L7.5... That does not say that L8 is perfect... that never happens... L8 testing and development had gotten to the point that among the testers, we were not seeing new data destroying bugs. As a retired long time test manager, I knew the product was ready to be exposed to a wider audience. Millennia made that decision that the time was right, and, if you look back at this list from when L7.0 was released, you will see many more birthing pains then than we are having with L8. When support got swamped with new orders, myself, and several of the other testers, have chosen to fill in here to help the user base with the birth of L8. It has been a full time, unpaid job for the past several days. ;-) <snip> Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
