Ray_Net wrote:
Leonidas Jones wrote:
Ray_Net wrote:
MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 2/12/2009 23:36, John Boyle told the world:
Phillip Jones wrote:
question wrote:
Is 2.0 a beta ?
At this point official no.
To the newsgroup: But from a USERS standpoint, a definite "YES"! :-(
Speaking as someone who had *no* problems at all, whose migration went
flawlessly (despite having a somewhat complex mail setup) and who now
enjoys a lot of stuff that simply wasn't available for the old version,
I have to disagree.
No software *ever* hits the public in a perfect form. Bugs *will* be
found. But calling it a "beta" because of it... well, by that logic,
*all* software is beta.
when we see so much complains .... it would be better to maintain the
beta status some time longer ...
I strongly disagree.
They went through, I think 3 RC's. Versions were tested in house, then
went to public alphas, betas, and RCs. The testing showed some major
issues, which were corrected. most of the problems we are seeing here
are minor, the exceptions being the migration issues, and the form
manager.
In my opinion, the migration issues are MAJOR ISSUES ...
They are major for those who are experiencing them, which not everyone
by any means. I migrated profiles on five machines, all without issue,
Macs and Windows.
If you think that the people who post here represent a majority of
users, you are sadly mistaken. It is an issue surely, and a major one
for those who experience it, but for most it has gone smoothly.
Perhaps if some of the people who had migration problems had
participated in the testing phase and shown a problem, something might
have been done. I tested from the alphas on and reported no problem with
the migration because I had none. Every time I installed a build from
alpha 1 up, I trashed the previous profile to run the migration again,
and every time it worked smoothly. It took a long time, since I have 20
email accounts and 11 new accounts, and the data is stored in a non
default location. With that involved email profile, I fully expected
the migration to fail, but it didn't. I did send a couple of crash
reports during the alphas, but it really only crashed a couple of times.
It would be fair to say that the project could have benefited from a
wider body of testers, but based on those people who did test it wasn't
broken.
Lee
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