Well, this is a late reply, as i work
part-time and only read this this morning
I see many people replying and making
their excuses for not going to the "bug-a-thon" , and I also have many excuses
(dont live in Auckland, have two kids etc etc) BUT I dont think excuses are
needed.
I feel quite berated after reading
this email, and surely, (since we are paying thousands of dollars for the
honour of using Delphi), testing of the product is not our
responsibility. Surely the developers/testers who are being payed highly
to develop/test the product should wear this burden.
I intend to use Delphi .NET as soon as
it ships. Does my lack of participation in this bug-a-thon cancel my
right to moan about the bugs?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 3:51 PM
Subject: [DUG] Delphi 8 Bug-Find-A-Thon Response
I must admit to
being astounded at the distinct lack of response from people from here. I have
7 people, which is good - but these have been rounded up by Distributech (we
also have one response from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Jason Saggers)
- and I'm thankful for that.
If Delphi is your
tool of choice you have a real possibility here to affect its delivery
quality. You don't need to come for the entire six hours, come for just one or
two - I see people constantly complain about this or that bug - but with
a chance to be proactive do you do anything? Sure you aren't getting paid to
do this and you say you won't be doing .NET for years, but how many of you
still write and maintain Delphi 1 applications? Quite clearly not "none", but
certainly not many. You're going to be moving to .NET because Microsoft (bless
their cotton socks) have said so (and it really is a far, far better
environment). Even if you don't actually want to help by doing anything, even
if you don't know anything about .NET, come along anyway - you'd probably
learn something useful! And Delphi 8 ROCKS.
Richard
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