Raymond Lillard wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 19:59, jdow wrote: > > When bosses ask one too many times when I am working full speed ahead > > on "getting it done as soon as possible" I often answer "Second tuesday > > next week." The Ruddy Hatters are welcome to file off the serial number > > and make creative software reuse of that phrase if they wish. > > > > I don't think it would be politic for them to do what I'd sometimes do > > when pressured once too often. If I figured a week I'd answer a week. > > Then next time asked I'd answer "two weeks". Third time I'd answer > > "four weeks'. It once took until "eight weeks" for someone go get the > > message, "When it is ready. And not a moment sooner or later." > > As a developer myself, I fully understand the frustration > s/w engineers feel when pressured for a completion date. > HOWEVER, the boss has a business to run and a profit to > make This annoying little goal of his (making a profit) > requires him to know when things (including release dates) > are going to happen. The boss isn't just coming around to > try and annoy you for the fun of it. In fact, given the > personal attitude of too many s/w developers, he'd rather > not have to talk to one at all. S/w developers should keep > in mind that it is making commitments and honoring them, > regularly; that enables the boss to hand out paychecks, > regularly. > > The s/w developer's life is no different at RedHat. > > I am quite pleased that the Open Source community seems > to have matured somewhat on this point. For example, both > FreeBSD and OpenBSD are on fairly rigid release cycles. > Even Linus has been more methodical with the release of > the upcoming 2.6 kernel after having suffered through the > chaos of the 2.4 release. > > I just felt the need for a little counterpoint, > Ray >
Counterpoint understood. I am just a user of the product. I think that the data loss, security and interoperability should be the main concern. Otherwise, it would be better to enhance psyche with improvements that were made so far. Then work on yet another phase to update the beta release. My main concerns are for integrity of CDRs or backups of any kind. Strong utiliities to manage the system, then comes hardware compatibility, followed by stable and easily usable programs. I'd love to have a new release to try out. But introducing one that has some great improvements, but breaks the quality of other programs might throw out a bad reputation for the company, developers and of course the bottom line from the negative publicity. This beta is highly improve from version 8.0 already, but there are concerns with wine and other developers that contribute to the usability of the release. These concerns need to be addressed also. I don't use wine myself much, but I do know that a lot of people do for certain concerns that they need to address or have to address to overcome proprietary technologies. Of course those wanting the 3D driver from nividia, they probably want it fairly soon. It is an impressive beta. Jim > -- > Raymond Lillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Product Systems, Inc. > > -- > Phoebe-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list -- Air Force Inertia Axiom: Consistency is always easier to defend than correctness. -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
