Darcy James Argue wrote, in part:
>What Robert said. Seriously. Aaron, they told you they know about the >bug, they are actively trying to fix it, and if possible, it will be >dealt with in the first maintenance release. What more do you want?
to which Aaron responded
It's bad faith to ship a product with a serious known bug in an advertised new feature. For me, that's what it comes down to. The good faith options would have been delaying release until it was fixed, leaving out that option until it worked correctly, or mentioning in a footnote that the feature was incomplete.
and in response to a post I mand, Aaron wrote (in part):
In my personal opinion, if they determined that they could not fix a basic bug in a newly advertised feature and still ship on time, they should have left the feature out. Since they had not yet advertised the feature, no one would have missed it.
To me, agreement with Aaron hinges on two things. First, what is "serious" or "basic", and second, whether the bug was in fact known about in time to remove the affected part of the software before the release.
WRT the latter point, the fundamental issue related to this is one that Dr. Patterson and I both alluded to: lead time. We don't know when the bug was discovered. While the response of MakeMusic! suggests that they knew about it before Aaron's post, we don't know for how long they had known about the bug. I submit that there is little enought value to MakeMusic! to intentionally ship a substandard product, that at the time this bug was discovered, it was too late to hold back the shipment without a substantial cost in time or goodwill.
With respect to the former, IMO,. if the bug only occurs when the tuplet begins with a rest, then it fails to rise to my own definition of "serious" or "basic". To me, a serious bug is one which causes the computer to hang up, and lose all data, or fail to start at all. A bug which affects only the instance when the tuplet begins with an eighth rest merely rises to the level of "irritating", or "annoying", and should not inhibit the shipment process.
BTW, what happens if, instead of an eighth note rest, one creates the tuplet with two sixteenth note rests at the beginning, and goes back and deletes one of the sixteenth notes, and changes the remaining one to an eighth?
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