maggior;449803 Wrote: > What's going on with the 7.4 line now actually sounds more like an alpha > release to me.I totally agree, however it appears that there are many > definitions of the term 'beta' that confuse the discussion.
In 20+ years of working in commercial software, beta has typically meant feature complete. Alpha means key functions exist yet some features are broken/incomplete or missing. Both the 7.4 server and the Controller firmware have features missing or broken. They are clearly being fixed - but it's not quite beta yet (if you agree with the stipulation of feature complete for beta). Beta != 'has bugs.' ALL software of non-trivial complexity has non-trivial bugs. Even shipping software! I remember 'beta' testing some software years ago. The external beta group found that there were so many key features missing or broken that it did not meet our expectations for a beta, and was not worth it to spend more time stumbling over gaping holes in the product than actually finding bugs. The company pulled the beta until they could provide a nominally stable and feature complete beta. -- gcurrie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gcurrie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66791 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
