Listener wrote:
Thanks, KDF for taking the time to give a long and considered reply.
Now get back to work! <g>
and you say you want to reduce bugs? ;)
... However, this is free music software for a $300 device.
i've worked for companies that make devices worth 500 times
as much who can't justify that management structure to the
finance department.
A lot of those devices sink without a trace in the marketplace.
You'd be surprised. They tend to survive based on small numbers and
users who aren't allowed to customise much without a service technician
to do it for them. By contrast, you have companies like Nortel
Networks. Top heavy with management, procedures and documentation to
drain a small forest, and they can nearly collapse when their plans for
the market don't manage to control the market the way they hoped.
My current company, in its past would be what you would call
seat-of-the-pants engineering. We are now part of a much larger body,
very much into documenting and planning. We are to be the entrance for
their new market, and they recognise that their ways are too slow to get
caught up in the time they want to be players in a rapidly changing new
market. We realise it will be a big risk to make a product with their
kind of wide release using our old methods. Both sides are working to
find a happy middle, and we don't have the clamour of a huge number of
users adding in their pet desires in the middle of it all. Stripping
down slimserver will probably do a lot of good, but it won't happen
quickly. Let the api's that are being reworked now be the platform for
all of the features that users demand. Features drive the sales, but
reliability drives repeat sales. With a structure that currently only
supports one product at a time, features are a necessary evil. Bugs are
a huge nuisance, but it is hard to give up that cash flow when the bugs
aren't really affecting the majority.
SD now has AndyG to take the con for squeezenetwork. The postings went
out for a test engineer and more, so it should all be taking shape.
and now, I will be back to my task.
-k
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