Hello Tony, Thursday, June 30, 2005, 12:07:23 PM, you wrote: > I am no programmer but I work in an industry that has to have very > resilient products and the thing that is worrying me about TB > development is the apparent effort being extended to add new > features/functions when there are issues with the existing ones. RL > would do themselves a lot of favours if they implemented a > feature/function freeze at the present time and picked off all the > existing bugs. Get the code base stable before implementing anything > else...
I can't necessarily disagree with you, but in 100% honesty, adding new features is thousands of times more fun (for a coder) than tracking down bugs. I'm not saying it's the right thing to do, I'm just speaking from my own experience as a coder. It's human nature and the RITLabs guys are human too (well, I've never seen them in person but I think it's a safe assumption! <grin>). During a project management / software development lifecycle, I really hate the bug fixing phase. It's a necessary evil, but it's exceptionally boring and frustrating most times. Again, it doesn't make it right, it just speaks to the issue at hand in terms of human nature. I too would like to see the existing bugs fixed before adding any new functionality, but I also deeply empathize with them. I'll just continue to sit on this fence! <grin> -- __ ____ ____ ____ TBUDL/BETA/DEV/TECH Lists Moderator / PGP 0x6C0AB16B ( ) ( ___)(_ _)( ___) TBUDP Wiki Site: http://www.PCWize.com/thebat/tbudp )(__ )__) _)(_ )__) Roguemoticons & Smileys: http://PCWize.com/thebat (____)(____)(____)(__) PHP Tutorials and snippets: http://www.DevTek.org ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.5.35 | '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/
