It is not up to me by no means but I think simpley to select the Alpha test group Email reflector users, would be to only put people in it that have sent bugs to the Bug tracker in the last 6 months or something like that.
73's Bret WX7Y Other wise you have just another group of users who want to read the latest. On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:15:48 -0700, Brian Lloyd wrote > On Jun 17, 2009, at 10:38 PM, Robert McGwier wrote: > > > I had to be persuaded but I believe it will benefit all of us. > > It is certainly what I would do. Reflectors are cheap and easy to set > up. If one doesn't want to spend any effort we could certainly create > another on google-groups or yahoo-groups. > > > The use of > > the test branch by people running contests and hunting vital DX or > > worse > > yet, doing ARES work just sent shivers down my spine. > > Yeah, that is pretty silly. OTOH, the only way you can completely stop > that is to carefully control who is in the alpha test group. It should > probably be people who have a methodical approach to using the > software and can track how they get to a particular error. I would > like to be in the alpha test group but I must admit that I do not do a > very good job of hammering on the code since almost all my operating > is using digital modes. After a year of having my F5K this past two > weeks were the first time I actually tried out the NF and ANF. > > Regardless, I tend to do regression testing as a byproduct of my use. > I have my own unofficial tests for basic functionality that tend to be > very consistent. > > > It is time for a > > fork in the road. One for those who like to tinker and/or have > > specific > > tasks to accomplish for the overall program and another (this one > > here) for > > those who like to just use and get help in set up without any > > barriers to > > moving back and forth other than the (ENFORCED) etiquette of what > > may be > > discussed and where. > > Seems more than reasonable to me. > > -- > > 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL > Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flex-radio.com/ Bret Mills _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
