Defining locals or constants

[Trevor DeVore]

On May 15, 2008, at 7:00 PM, David Bovill wrote:

> Make it easier for the community to document, vote, comment and  
> organise
> these issues. As an example  - I would vote on this, but I find that  
> either
> due to the upgrade to 2.9 or the fact that I have not filed a bug  
> report in
> a few months - I've lost my login - it would take me 5 minutes to  
> dig out -
> but that's too much.

Hey David -

I'm not trying to be confrontational here but 5 minutes to find your  
login info (which can be saved by your browser for future trips to  
QCC) seems like a small sacrifice to make in order to log information  
on a bug that is important to you.

> Its just too many steps relying on limited feedback and
> resources from RunRev - the list is really the only thing that works  
> because
> of the choice of Bugzilla and the lack of easy integrate feedback  
> integrated
> into the environment - a Revolution IDE should have "crowd sourcing"  
> built
> in.

I think that regardless of what improvements could be made to the  
Quality Control Center it is important to use the system that we  
actually have. It is by no means inadequate for the task at hand and  
can be used to get information to the development team on how to  
improve the product. I know from experience that the folks at Rev look  
at the reports and fix them when possible. And their responsiveness to  
reports in QCC over the last few months has greatly improved as well.  
I hope that just because there are some lingering bugs that may have  
the wrong status or haven't been publicly addressed people don't  
abandon the system entirely.

One more thing to add relating to this and the RunRevLive conference  
(excellent by the way) I just returned from earlier this week. I have  
never walked away from one of the Revolution conferences as confident  
in the company as I did this one. There were a number of people from  
the company there that we (the attendees) could stop in the hall and  
chat with about all things Rev. I think 2.9 created a lot of positive  
momentum for Revolution as a development tool and the company seems to  
be in a position to build on that momentum. If you have stuff you want  
to see fixed or improved then I think now is the best time ever to let  
them know about it.

Regards,

-- 
Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Learning Systems
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