On 6/25/05, Manuel Breitfeld wrote: > On Saturday, 25 June 2005 at 18:56 you (Mary Bull) wrote: > > > I think Maxim means to be speaking in connection with the specific > > changes listed when 9Val made the announcement of the current (.31) > > beta, when he [Maxim] writes the words "generally better." > > Okay, makes it a bit clearer, but why is there a need to ask? > They see if new bugs will be mentioned and get feedback to the fixed things - > so thy have everything they need to decide on their own.
Manuel, while fixing bugs other things can get broken along the way. And sometimes a programmer thinks that a bug is fixed when it is only partially fixed. Both situations see to apply here. Looking closer at 3.5.31, I no longer think that it should be released. My opinion is influenced by: o Vili's strong objection based on an inability to connect to Microsoft Exchange o The new bug identified by MIke in respect to the Macro insertion option for templates - not just in the address book but also in account and folder properties. o Ongoing problems/weirdness of Connection Centre behavior indicating only a partially fixed bug. IMO, 3.5.31 is just not strong enough for a public release. On the other hand, I do appreciate being asked my opinion, but - like Manuel - I was somewhat taken aback by the question. First of all, I think that the question was posed too early, We need a few days to use a version before we can be confident about its worth. Second, I think that RL should have as clear an idea on the appropriateness of a release as any of us, based on feedback over those few days. Ultimately the decision to release or not to release must rest in RL's hands. So I am not sure that this question needs to be posed at all. I believe that it would be best if RL just makes it a policy to let us do beta testing for a few days on any release candidate (or beta version) before taking a decision to release or not. -- Avi Yashar Windows XP Pro SP2 and The Bat! Pro (No OTFE) 3.5.31 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.5.31 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
