On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:59:44 -0800 (PST), Rich Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I fully agree with this.. It is a horrendous problem. I worked for Award 
> Software
> for many years doing BIOS code and support, you don't want to know what that 
> world
> is like... I later worked for BMG Software (formerly Boole & Babbage) and a 
> major
> Internet backbone provider so I fully understand the testing and nightmares 
> of doing
> so.. This IS why a formal release proceedure is so important. But with a 
> formal
> procedure you can manage  and mitigate these issues. Just doing a wildcard 
> release
> because "it works on my machine and so what if it does not work on yours" 
> just does
> not encourage others to help you out..


We all understand the "best pratices" of corporate software
development, we're all professional programmers.  The more rigid 
proceedures get put into place, the lesslike a hobby and more like
work it becomes.  And for every developer we'd gain under the new
system we'd lose two more because it wasn't a fun project to work on.
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