Fairy,

I've been with the company since March, and have been working to build
good test suites for the Squeezebox firmware and Slimserver.  The 6.3.0
release was my first Slimserver release.  There weren't a lot of bugs in
it, but the bugs that caused duplicated album listings were extremely
annoying to end-users.

As part of the QA process, I collect sample data from user-reported
bugs or create my own to test for these problems in the future.

In the case of the CUE sheet album duplication issue (bug 3716), we did
try to fix that bug prior to the 6.3.1 release.  However, it turned out
that fixing it introduced unacceptable additional instability into
Slimserver, so we reverted the changes.  In the end, in this case, it
was not a failure to find the bug, but rather an engineering decision
to release the software anyway.  Quality is not just a matter of
testing, but a process that involves all members of a team.

That said, we are very aware that in order to reach a market outside of
our "hackerish" roots, we need to improve our Slimserver releases.  With
the invaluable help of you, our users, we will continue to work on it.


-- 
ChrisOwens

Christopher Owens
QA Manager
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