On Apr 06, 2007 12:05 PM, Sven E Olsson wrote: > On 2007-04-06, at 11:53, Giovanni wrote: > > If there are beta tests as I know there are, why is the > > release being release with BUGs? > > It is NOT the beta testers that say: "OK", it is the "timetable" ... > And as you understand the "timetable" could not test software and > have no knowledge about it.
On Apr 06, 2007 8:36 PM, Thom McGrath wrote: > We had a very long conversation about RB's release > quality on the beta list *before* the release. On Apr 07, 2007 1:04 AM, RBNUBE wrote: > I want software that works correctly, not speed of light, mandatory, > under-tested, buggy quarter-year releases. Norman has a very interesting post on his blog about the release dates for the 2007r2 version: http://66.244.235.131/blog/?p=56 "Alpha 1 - Feb 5, 2007 5:05 PM (MST) Alpha 2 - Feb 15, 2007 4:43 PM (MST) Alpha 3 - Feb 26, 2007 4:21 PM (MST) Alpha 4 - Mar 7, 2007 4:58 PM (MDT) Beta 1 - Mar 12, 2007 5:39 PM (MDT) Beta 2 - Mar 15, 2007 5:23 PM (MDT) Beta 3 - Mar 19, 2007 4:47 PM (MDT) Beta 4 - Mar 22, 2007 9:53 AM (MDT) Beta 5 - Mar 24, 2007 5:44 AM (MDT) Beta 6 - Mar 27, 2007 4:32 PM (MDT) FC 1 - Mar 28, 2007 6:10 PM (MDT) FC 2 - Mar 29, 2007 8:08 PM (MDT) FC 3 - Mar 30, 2007 5:36 PM (MDT) FC 4 - Apr 1, 2007 7:57 PM (MDT) RELEASE - Apr 2, 2007 7:35 AM (MDT)" The time between each Beta and FC says a lot. Also, how could anyone properly test the FCs? I don't trust on the quality of the RB releases since the 2006r1 and I stopped full testing new releases since 2006r4 - too much time wasted between 2006r1 and 2006r4 and I always had to go back to 2005r4. I downloaded 2007r2 but after reading about some bugs (mainly the isbbobqx that was discovered on 2007r2FC3!) I decided to not even install it. It's obvious (after 2 years) that the "Fast Release Model" (or whatever is called) is not working regarding product quality and needs some adjustments. And I'm not optimistic that this will change a lot just because they are using the released version to develop the new one. If a new release has a very nasty bug, they just do what they've been doing - fix it for the next release and we have to wait more 3 months. Carlos _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
