On Wednesday, June 29, 2005, 1:54:02 PM, Kevin Menard wrote: > Now, I know agile and XP methods are the new fad in development and > are not suitable for everything, but it would benefit RL to adopt > some of these practices. For example, saying the next beta series > is going to address IMAP is unreasonable. IMAP is a big component > and it's currently broken in a lot of ways. If instead RL broke > things down into user stories, e.g., "The user clicks the delete > button and the message is removed immediately" and worked on getting > some of those accomplished in short, iterative cycles, they'd > probably see much better results.
It seems to me that the role of beta testers is to test, and the role of the programmers is to program and debug. I haven't written any code as a professional for a long time, and mostly in languages you can't even study any more. I understand there was some demand for people with my skills during the now forgotten Y2K era, but none now. I don't feel like it is my place to formulate the path and since I don't have a copy of the road map or of the code, I think I'll just keep testing, and try to help when I things seem broken. -- Dwight A. Corrin 928 S Broadway Wichita KS 67211 316.303.1411 fax 316.265.7568 dcorrin at fastmail.fm Using The Bat! 3.5.32 on Windows XP version 5,1 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.5.33 | '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/
