On 19 Oct 2009 at 9:45, p_daley tds.net wrote: > David [Bailey] is absolutely correct on how software companies decide on > which bugs > to fix. > > There are 3 criteria most often used: > 1. How severe is the bug, will users lose data? > 2. How frequently does it happen? > 3. How difficult is it to fix?
That may be one interpretation of what David said, but it's a very, very charitable one, especially in that he basically completely ignores #3 in his formulation, which went like this in its original wording: >> MakeMusic >> waits a bit to see which of the known bugs raise the largest >> outrage and complaints and then it fixes those and chooses >> to let the rest of the known bugs lie until it can get >> around to them. I really don't think that statement by David is close to being equivalent to the three principles that you outline. David's original statement implies dishonesty and bad faith, and I just think that's completely wrong. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
