I'm not sure that would help. RS has historically been very slow at
bug fixes vs new features--and i've been a user since day one pretty
much. That's why I've stopped subscribing renewing every release.
The "license" they charge each cycle isn't (in my personal opinion)
worth the new features vs bug fixes. I'm not sure what they are
licensing each year; it's definitely not support. I love the
product, but I'm happy buying an upgrade every year or two when the
bug fixes catch up to what I need or want. Yes I know this is only
my opinion and others will disagree and may be happy "buying" a
license every year.
RB is great, but they are the only game in town apart from XCode (and
Revolution). I think they want to be the M$ of Mac. However, even
Microsoft has free versions of .NET now....
Just my two cents.
S
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Message: 2
Subject: CAN WE HELP? Suggestions to FIX MOST BUGS!
From: "Carlos M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:52:14 +0100
On the thread "How much of RB2006 is now written in RB itself?"
Charles Yeomans wrote (Jul 15, 2006 1:32 AM):
I do wish that RS would take one of its rapid release
periods and devote it to optimization and bug fixes.
I also agree with this and I wish a little more ;)
I think RS must pay big attention to the following:
New features do not have any value to customers (mainly to current) if
they cannot use a new release due to important bugs that were not
fixed or are new!
Based on this I created a new feedback report to give suggestions to
RS to fix most bugs.
Report id: wmqizprq
http://snipurl.com/fixbugs
Basically my suggestion is to change the Rapid Release Model to the
following:
- Releases 1 and 3: Dedicated to new features and bug fixes;
- Releases 2 and 4: Dedicated ONLY to bug fixes and optimization (no
new features).
This would allow RS to concentrate at least two times per year to ONLY
fix bugs and improve optimization. RS should fix also bugs with one or
few 'votes'.
If you agree with this suggestion add this report to your watch list
and/or if you have any other suggestion please add it to this report:
wmqizprq
http://snipurl.com/fixbugs
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My side note:
I really don't care anymore about new features on new releases... the
first thing I do is to check (by reading the release notes and my
watch list bug) if old bugs (that are important to me) were fixed. If
they were not fixed I don't even waste my time downloading and install
a new release.
Carlos
[Win2K/RB2005r4]
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