2.5 Release Candidate 1

[Marian Petrides]

Alex is right.
What's more Kevin didn't say RunRev was going to disregard minor 
glitches, just that fixes may have to wait until a later release.

Frankly, I'd rather deal with the devil I know (minor glitches) than 
with one I don't (unrecognized bugs introduced in the process of last 
minute tweaks to fix minor annoyances).


On Aug 27, 2004, at 9:28 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

> At 20:16 27/08/2004 -0400, yoy wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kevin Miller" <kevin at runrev.com>
>> Subject: 2.5 Release Candidate 1
>>
>>
>> > At this time we are no longer able to respond to minor glitches or
>> > annoyances reported.  This is because we must change as little as 
>> possible
>> > in any rebuild to ensure we don't introduce any new issues.
>>
>> C'mon! That's an outright POS comment.
>>
>> Establish a known bugged FC???
>
> No, in fact that's outright common sense. Introducing changes to 
> software carries a risk of unintended consequences - even with the 
> best automated testing methods around, you can't afford to risk making 
> unnecessary changes at the last minute. If you find a major problem, 
> you must fix it; if you find a serious or moderate problem, you have 
> to make judgement - that's why software development managers gets paid 
> big bucks; but if you find a minor annoyance you must not fix it.
>
> As the release date gets closer, you have to "throttle down" on 
> introducing changes to minor bugs and annoyances. I don't know a 
> software company that doesn't use some form of this "throttling" 
> technique as it gets to final  release of large products. You can do 
> it differently for smaller products, where the predictability of 
> unintended consequences is orders of magnitude smaller - but not for 
> medium or large products, and I think Rev must be big enough to 
> qualify for that category.
>
> -- Alex.