The Bearer Of Bad News

[Richard Gaskin]

Bob Sneidar wrote:
 > Testing developer releases and release candidates is not high
 > on my priority, but given my recent experience, maybe it should
 > be. :-)

For me it's made the work more fun.

With any final release, at the moment it's done it's effectively dead, a 
static thing that no longer undergoes any change.

But the pre-release versions feel more alive.  If I come across 
something that isn't quite right I can drop a bug report on it, and most 
of the time these days I get a confirmation within hours and a fix 
within days.

It also feels more social:  when I get Hanson's confirmation I know I'm 
not too crazy now that he can reproduce it, and I often get interesting 
insights into the engine from Ali or Mark or others on the team.

I generally ship using final releases, but over the last year I've 
started using pre-release versions exclusively for day-to-day work.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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