On Friday, August 13, 2004, at 5:36:59 PM, time seemed to stop as 9Val uttered these words:
M>> broken, and describing various attempts to get around the bug. Okay, M>> so colour groups are broken, so they are, use the last stable release M>> for your work, and wait with the betas until it's fixed to test it M>> some more! > And how it could be done without sending to beta list and/or bugtrack? Of course it couldn't - but that's not the point. The point is that, the longer I watch this and other betas' progress, the more I see how immature (in the terms of programming, not psychology!) TheBat! development is. And I get pissed off - at that fact, at all of you more experienced testers/programmers than me, and at myself for not noticing it sooner :) 1. There's only you, 9Val, who communicates in here - and you almost "save the day", but it still is too rarely. I don't mean it as an attack on you - just a statement of fact: sometimes nobody from RIT speaks for almost a week or so, right after releasing a new bug-loaded beta... This, for a mature project, is unacceptable... 2. The bug-hunting is not coordinated in any way. Even a bug that is found, identified, and confirmed by multiple testers, sometimes simply gets ignored, or the discussion about it changes topic, and everyone forgets about it. 3. Our suggestions are often completely ignored. Okay, this one IS sort of personal - but personal to me, not to you :). Many times, when discussing this or that feature, I posted complete solutions to the problems found - algorithms, syntaxes, schematics. I tend to have a highly analytical mind, allowing me to plan things quite well - yet none, NONE, of my bigger suggestions was ever introduced, even though I even offered to provide ready-to-use Delphi code. Your recent addition of the /REG command surprised me a lot, positively - but it's just one gem in a whole bag of trash, proverbially speaking. Ranting again, am I not. :) > You are too emotional today ;) I tend to be. Sue me :) :P -- |\ /| \~~~/ \~~~/ | \/ | /\ > < \~/ > < ICQ# 3146019 |____| /__\ /___\ /_\ /___\ IQ# 3.14159 Flyin' high with The Bat! v2.10 RC/1 over the swamps of Windows 2000 5.0 build 2195 Service Pack 4 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 2.13 'Lucky' Beta/4 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
