my 2c/ If I'm going to volunteer some time to beta testing, the beta has to be somewhat functional as I only have one server/image no special test system to play around with. This has been the norm for the last 2 years, the dev's have been slowly introducing new things bugs get found and sorted, nice work flow an everyman can participate as Guinea-pig/crash test dummy without to much hassle .
Migration and preservation of settings/database MUST work. It also must work when downgrading. Why ? If it's getting to much you must have a clean retreat route to run and hide a while when the beta is to unstable ;-) For now I upgraded myself to a tight spot where I'm sure either a up or down grade would blow my settings and require a clean install, the icing is the controller upgrade witch forces me to do something about it. No more Déjà vu bugs, it's sometimes looks like a zombie movie here, old bugs are resurrected from the dead quite often. Volunteer's tire quickly if their bug is found and fixed and then reappears 6 months later. This leads to the conclusion that there is very little rudimentary testing at all before releasing a software ? How is it possible to miss that password protection is not working or that the power off function is gone, or that dhcp is malfunctioning or that dns resolving is broken or non A-Z characters is causing trouble again, easy nobody bothered to try ;) My absolute favorite in this genre ( why test it should work.. ) was the release of the duet: Password protected squeezecenter did not work. Hidden SSID did not work. Setting up on a network with no DHCP did not work. No easy way to configure fixed ip's (turning on said dhcp made this impossible ), when actually fixed ip's is the only stable way to run your Squeezeboxes ? No more can't find.. or blue lights when both server ip and dns is hardcoded into the device eh. No roaming ? basically large parts of normal network functionality was missing in a release , this was all clear to me after using the product for 30 minutes o pro would have seen this in 5 ? I'm unsure of it's now. Point, if an average joe with no programing skills can poke holes in software in 5 minutes, it can not have been tested properly. /2c Anyway keep up the good work, but a more structured less chaotic way of working would benefit us all i think. I will still be testing betas for the fun of it. And now i think the 7.3.4 is very good so they eventually got there almost a year after the release of the duet, so for fuzz free squeezeserver I would use 7.3.4 . Or if possible one the pre sqlite 7.4 beta's which where better, but they to would probably force you to upgrade the controller. I think that the development peaked in the pre sqlite 7.4, that was golden -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- No it can NOT be controlled with iTunes.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66745
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