At 11:23 AM 4/13/2004, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: >--- Dick Flanagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I find it amazing that all these ideas come up AFTER Paul says he is ready >> to go to Beta with the new release. I hope no one's feelings are hurt if >> their pet ideas don't show up until the following release. > >Dick, no one *knew* that Paul was working on a new release, not even the beta >testers (of which I am one).
It makes sense to me that Paul would be collecting ideas for the next release as soon as the previous one goes out. He probably has a list with hundreds of items on it that he has been looking into over the past two years. At some point he will have a significant collection of them ready to go out to Beta testers. Any suggestions coming in after that time will go in the pot for the following release. As I read the organization chart, Paul and Steve are "management." Beta testers are "testers." Users are the collective wisdom that drives each release. Please forgive the rant, but I spent most of my adult life in software development and remember will great frustration all of the "gotta have" ideas I received as a release I had worked on for a year finally went into testing. 73, Dick -- Dick Flanagan K7VC NV SM E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
